Mailing list mode: "Upload" links broken (?) in e-mails

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At the moment we simply ship the raw markdown to the plaintext
section of emails.

Having markdown in the body of e-mails is nice (some mail clients may
prettify it), there are just a few kinks with the current format, as you
mention.

For example now text contents has stuff like:

[quote="codinghorror, post:2, topic:112354"]
this is definitely a bug
[/quote]

This would probably be a nicer way of rendering this in a text email.

> this is definitely a bug
URL-TO-QUOTE

This is reason why I wrote my “Discourse article” extension to Emacs’
Gnus mail client: the transformation of the Discourse quote format into
regular e-mail citation format.

And then I added other things, and realized that except for a handful of
transformations (including a header for the “Previous Replies” section
in mailing list mode and separators for replies therein) I could hand
off most of the rendering to markdown mode…

I would definitely welcome a more “canonical” markdown, if you will.

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