ROTD (Rant Of The Day): patches

[Dimitrie O. Paun]

Guys,

I've come to _hate_ diffs attached as Application/OCTET-STREAM. Can you
please, Please, PLEASE, attach them as Text/PLAIN?

I use Pine over a ssh connection to read wine-{devel,patches}, and I can
simply view the Text/PLAIN attachments, whereas I have to:
  -- press V to view the list of attachments
  -- select the attachment I want to view
  -- press S to save it to disk
  -- exit Pine
  -- start vi to actually view the thing
  -- restart pine...
Just to view a Application/OCTET-STREAM attachment.

Which means 2 things:
  -- I get frustrated (and look what happens when I do:))
  -- I simply ignore those patches

For all these reasons (and more), I think Linus is right when he insists on:
  -- ONE patch per email
  -- ONLY Text/PLAIN attachments.

--
Dimi.