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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Basic Python Query
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 18:22:44 -0400
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On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 09:45:43 -0400, Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com>
declaimed the following:

>
>So that I understand what's going on, what's the bad thing that happens 
>with a multi-part message?  I would have thought that mail readers would 
>choose the preferred part, or is it something to do with the message 
>quoting?

	Well... The main thing to understand is that this particular "forum" is
NOT JUST a mailing-list. It is cross-linked with the Usenet
comp.lang.python news-group (and that, unfortunately, is cross-linked to
Google-Groups). And to compound things, Gmane makes the mailing-list source
available as a news-group on their server.

	So it isn't being viewed using just email clients -- I view it using a
newsreader.
	
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