[ekmartin]

A lot of mailing lists require you to send plain text emails, with the Linux Kernel being an example.

[TorKlingberg]

Don't those mailing lists also require line wrapping?

[4ad]

They require sensible line wrapping. Line wrapping text is good, even required for commit messages, but line wrapping git patches is obviously a catastrophe. On Gmail you can't turn wrapping off (and you can't send patches anyway as it elides leading indentation and changes tabs to spaces).

[ZirconCode]

you beat me to it by a minute ;)