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

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/mailing-list-mode-upload-links-broken-in-e-mails/112354>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [March 22, 2019, 5:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mailing-list-mode-upload-links-broken-in-e-mails/112354 "2019-03-22T17:50:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 4:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mailing-list-mode-upload-links-broken-in-e-mails/112354/5 "2019-03-25T04:16:21Z")

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> [@codinghorror](#):
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> I’d rather convert BBCode to text, personally, rather than playing a game of “telephone” where we go Markdown → HTML → text

We would need to design Markdown → Markdown renderer. We could teach markdown.it to do this with a heavily modified pipeline, it is not trivial, probably a couple of weeks for a first shot at it. Even if we got uploads and bbcode hacks we have working we would still be left with inline HTML tags.

Playing “telephone” here is faster and more robust, cause we get to normalize the Markdown that way.

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