[dpdk-users] [dpdk-web] DMARC mitigation in dpdk.org's mailing list

[Dmitry Kozlyuk]

2021-09-23 09:53 (UTC-0700), Stephen Hemminger:
> On Thu, 23 Sep 2021 19:42:24 +0300
> Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > 2021-09-23 09:15 (UTC+0000), Ali Alnubani:  
> > > [...]
> > > - Disable conversion of text/html to plain text.
> > >   Mailman currently strips MIME attachments and does text/html to plain text conversion.    
> > 
> > Why not just reject HTML messages?  
> 
> Because too much of the world uses Outlook.

That's the reason for my concern. Outlook's handling of quotes in HTML mode
is unbelievably poor. Prolonged discussion, started by a message with several
points, inevitably becomes a mix of colored text inside(!) the quote; or
top-posting at best. More often than not it ends with an offline discussion by
voice or whatever. Which defeats the purpose of a public mailing list: to
preserve discussions. Outlook can send plain text, so its users are not
limited by forbidding HTML. Hopefully, dev@ will remain as-is anyway, because
threads are usually started by a plain text patch, and Outlook inherits this
property for replies.