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Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 12:20:44 +0200
Subject: Re: Python 3 is killing Python
From: =?UTF-8?B?Q2hyaXMg4oCcS3dwb2xza2HigJ0gV2Fycmljaw==?= <kwpolska@gmail.com>
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A little more off-topic:

On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 3:57 AM, MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> On 2014-07-16 00:53, Rick Johnson wrote:
>> Some folks even have software that "blabs" about how great a job it
>> is doing [=E2=80=A6], so if you see [=E2=80=A6] some pretentious line
>> about "this was sent from my i-phone" -- send that crap to the
>> bitbucket!
>>
> "This was sent from my iPhone" =3D=3D "I have an iPhone!"

I personally parse those lines as =E2=80=9Csent from my iPhone, which has a=
n
on-screen touch keyboard, and it=E2=80=99s harder to type on it=E2=80=9D.

> Also annoying is some footnote that says that the email contains
> confidential information and that if you're not the intended recipient
> you should delete it, etc.
>
> That's somewhat pointless if it's being sent to a public forum!

Corporate lawyers for the win!  99.9% of people who send e-mail with
this line are forced to do so by their corporation=E2=80=99s legal departme=
nt.

Also, the correct solution for all those is getting a sane client that
can hide quotes and signatures.  Like Gmail (which defaults to
top-posting, but fixing this is one click per message away*).  And if
someone brings the =E2=80=9Cpeople need to download it anyway=E2=80=9D argu=
ment: it=E2=80=99s
2014, people: hard-drives are large nowadays (or you can just use
IMAP) and if you=E2=80=99re paying $100 per kilobyte, you=E2=80=99re doing =
it wrong
and should not be online in the first place.

* trickier on mobile, though.

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Chris =E2=80=9CKwpolska=E2=80=9D Warrick <http://chriswarrick.com/>
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