Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!newsfeed.eweka.nl!eweka.nl!feeder3.eweka.nl!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed4.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.002 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'python.': 0.02; 'finally:': 0.05; 'lines.': 0.07; 'subject:help': 0.07; 'python': 0.09; 'received:mail-vc0-f174.google.com': 0.09; 'recommends': 0.09; 'dec': 0.15; 'mailman,': 0.15; '(when': 0.16; 'from:addr:rosuav': 0.16; 'from:name:chris angelico': 0.16; 'list;': 0.16; 'reason.': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.17; 'everyone,': 0.17; 'thu,': 0.17; 'written': 0.20; 'posted': 0.22; 'this:': 0.23; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.25; 'am,': 0.27; '(as': 0.27; 'message- id:@mail.gmail.com': 0.27; 'lines': 0.28; 'run': 0.28; 'post': 0.28; 'mind,': 0.29; 'quoting': 0.29; 'received:209.85.220.174': 0.29; 'things,': 0.29; 'url:mailman': 0.29; 'url:python': 0.32; 'url:listinfo': 0.32; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.33; 'received:google.com': 0.34; 'list': 0.35; 'received:209.85.220': 0.35; 'received:209.85': 0.35; 'something': 0.35; 'there': 0.35; 'but': 0.36; 'url:org': 0.36; 'subject:Please': 0.36; 'received:209': 0.37; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'delete': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'google': 0.39; 'where': 0.40; 'header:Received:5': 0.40; 'url:mail': 0.40; 'think': 0.40; 'your': 0.60; 'middle': 0.66; '11:45': 0.84; 'quotations': 0.84; 'subject:you': 0.88; 'insane': 0.93 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=mloVmp5Gg5+CsjBk8n15WnBN/NCtg/9wT9RVDwmB9BA=; b=nl1FcteZVeWeKLWFntaF5kxUTkfl2BtYMUQUPbe/m/N+RhSFT5VFY3NFQFAqTYRW4V U7ztRCi6uy4z6ptd00zBptXJT7JnzbsLMxKQk2yt5WDt2v8TJw4gA0FyEblyFqKmRv3C 5WEjbBLyxEd4JZIUrGA+fYdeVRFAYi8ipzq15DW4du/vbKDcl7DFUTqQVEVUiaCWiitr W9oa+OKT+j6uSZvdNC3w4ayWBpuvGGF/WnjblN+8s+9ZyHnUFSnotoZmtg9t4sM60/xb nNJ7Wuna+qLUPvyKtOXSw9pXfsWnTwPGCYl6M9JwmA8EKXaTRdn4sSpGXx4NIoB7i0Ol V4Lw== MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <7333128a-6866-4e3c-8436-d5b2397beadc@googlegroups.com> Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 12:00:49 +1100 Subject: Re: Please help if you can! From: Chris Angelico To: python-list@python.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 30 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1356570059 news.xs4all.nl 6990 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:48704 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:35561 On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Joshua Landau wrote: > FINALLY: > When you use Google Groups, your quotations look to us like this: > >> This is something I said >> >> with lots of extra >> >> lines in the middle >> >> for no reason. Google >> >> Groups sucks, basically. > > So please just delete the part where you quote other people. I think there > are other ways of quoting properly, but you might as well just not quote. > (When you quoted my post, the result was *literally* twice as long!) > One of the regulars on the list has posted a run-down of how to post from Google Groups without annoying everyone, and among other things, it recommends manually deleting all the blank lines. To my mind, though, this would be insane and inane tedium. I recommend signing up to the mailing list; see http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list for details. (As an aside, the mailing list is run by Mailman, which is written in Python. So we use Python to discuss Python.) ChrisA