_contribute.html_: missing information regarding feedback procedure

Zvi Gilboa zg7s@eservices.virginia.edu
Fri May 10 11:29:00 GMT 2013


Greetings,

At the very bottom of the above page 
(http://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html), there is no indication of GCC only 
accepting *plain text* messages.  As most mail clients nowadays default 
to a combined text/html format, this leaves users with the unpleasant 
experience of having their messages initially rejected by the server. 
Note that most users would simply assume that the "server is not 
working," and won't go into the trouble of reading the full text of the 
MAILER DAEMON's response, where the actual description of the problem is 
hidden somewhere in the middle of the second paragraph.  Worse than 
that, as the message is sent by MAIL-DAEMON@sourceware.org --- an entity 
that does not show any relation to the GNU or GCC -- some users might 
even fail to notice that the message had never been received, and thus 
falsely believe that the organization had simply chosen to ignore them.

Best regards,
Zvi Gilboa



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