[FFmpeg-devel] Posting correctly (was: Accept a colon in the path of a URI, instead of stripping preceding characters.)

[Nicolas George]

softworkz . (HE12025-05-21):
> From: Timothy Allen <tim at treehouse.org.za>
> Sent: Mittwoch, 21. Mai 2025 09:29
> To: softworkz . <softworkz at hotmail.com>; FFmpeg development discussions and patches <ffmpeg-devel at ffmpeg.org>
> Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Accept a colon in the path of a URI, instead of stripping preceding characters.
> 
> On Tue, 2025-05-20 at 20:03 +0000, softworkz . wrote:
> I was just about to reply and suggest to replace those colons with %3A
> (url-encoded) when I read the ticket, which already suggests that.
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Your message is absolutely unreadable. It is not my software that makes
it so, it is unreadable on the official archive as well:

https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2025-May/343902.html

Compare with the message you are responding to:

https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2025-May/343841.html

It is impossible to know which parts you wrote and which parts you
quote, let alone distinguish quotes from double quotes.

Before you allow yourself to badmouth the tool mailing again, you need
to make the minimum amount of effort to use it properly. If not for
yourself, at least out of basic respects for the other people who use
it. That means making sure your mails are at least as readable as the
ones from other experienced developers. You can observe them rendered in
the archive, not mangled by your local mail software. Start with having
a real attribution instead of that awful blob of headers.

And if that makes you realize the software you have been using is crap
and change it, so much the better, and then realize that with proper
software a mailing-list is an excellent tool, so much the better. But I
will not hold my breath.

-- 
  Nicolas George