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Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?
Diego Novillo <dnovillo@google.com> writes:
> Sure. First I wanted to find out whether this requirement is just a
> technical limitation with our mailing list software.
It is not a technical limitation. We explicitly reject HTML e-mail. We
could accept it.
As Jonathan pointed out, accepting HTML e-mail and then displaying it in
the web archives will make us even more of a spam target than we already
are, and will mean that we will need some mechanisms for identifying and
removing spam and virus links in the web pages.
A possible compromise would be to accept HTML e-mail that has a text
alternative, and only display the text alternative in the archives.
That would also work for people who have text-only e-mail readers. In
general that would help for people who use e-mail programs that send
HTML with text alternatives by default. But it would fail for people
who actually use HTML formatting in a meaningful way. And, of course,
this would require some administrative work to be done.
I don't really care one way or the other on this issue. That said:
1) People who send HTML e-mail ought to get a bounce message, so I would
think they would be able to reform.
2) The fact that Android refuses to provide a non-HTML e-mail capability
is ridiculous but does not seem to me to be a reason for us to change
our policy.
Ian