On 12/08/2010 08:02 PM, Ivan Maidanski wrote: > I remember you (or someone else) had pointed me about of > inconvenience of reading my patches in the form they were attached > and I had promised to use ".diff.txt" file extension but forgot > about it after a long delay. (there is such problem in, say, hpl.com > mailing list where I frequently send my patches to; besides, I have > no problem in opening the attachment in the link below in Firefox > which I use). I apologies for the inconvenience and I'll try to keep > in my mind that it's better to use .txt extension when posting to > this ML. And every ML, I would have thought. What possible advantage could there be in generating patch mails in which the patch doesn't appear in the body of the mail? Andrew.