Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.etla.org!news.stack.nl!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2.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 0.038 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.92; '*S*': 0.00; 'broken': 0.04; 'back.': 0.09; 'hiding': 0.09; 'inserted': 0.09; 'from:addr:rosuav': 0.16; 'from:name:chris angelico': 0.16; 'hides': 0.16; 'newsgroups': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'subject:need': 0.19; 'helpful': 0.24; 'mon,': 0.24; 'nearly': 0.26; 'post': 0.26; 'header:In-Reply- To:1': 0.27; 'chris': 0.29; 'am,': 0.29; 'message- id:@mail.gmail.com': 0.30; 'lines': 0.31; '13,': 0.31; 'breaking': 0.31; 'quotes': 0.31; 'subject:some': 0.31; 'stuff': 0.32; 'interface': 0.32; 'text': 0.33; 'but': 0.35; 'received:google.com': 0.35; 'should': 0.36; 'implement': 0.38; 'gmail': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'rather': 0.38; '12,': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'consists': 0.60; "google's": 0.60; 'more': 0.64; 'charset:windows-1252': 0.65; 'between': 0.67; 'containing': 0.69; 'favor:': 0.84; '2013': 0.98 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=jeY2mSgikW1uRcF3mhMG/4Jol3Tso79xF5NGmb/QuqQ=; b=LccEjpZDJIocRvlzHJiHX3PVahCF0N+L2vk7KO2PXLTEOUvjlrWsYS0KbPKyqJXHIt JLDNVGOc19mk2fEiz9q+qMDwKUntyHgpVc5rDwDuECxZJDzOGJzXkvYEBtWyZlRBeWF2 Snt7gpnDqC9T4IL9qUpVBAb/9WLA8mT+mVTqoRF06S2N5l0VHGNS8DIhBI/QJ6IOPL7i WHmBPcxntccHp9boDuUZhmVaDFvW4c8KW0lORSFERnCzFDe7fs3V+gxzOO3QikVfQ1BL ezmN59oOIJaEdcqmhzByQuvhbDEnABZAI0AjTA5Q+nxLmcEmGK4KloCJz0IQGlp4USYa 3MPw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.52.122.109 with SMTP id lr13mr14026453vdb.91.1368374938718; Sun, 12 May 2013 09:08:58 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <1bdc367a-4187-440b-85a8-de69360bc71d@googlegroups.com> <001fe0f1-9124-4cbb-bc84-1b58ee7b8138@googlegroups.com> <47292460-b601-47e7-bdba-ccdc5f0d1c27@googlegroups.com> Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 02:08:58 +1000 Subject: Re: in need of some help... From: Chris Angelico To: python-list@python.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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: 21 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1368374946 news.xs4all.nl 15945 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:43613 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:45187 On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 1:59 AM, Chris =93Kwpolska=94 Warrick wrote: > On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 12:20 AM, Jens Thoms Toerring wr= ote: >> PS: If I may ask you a favor: consider refraining from using Google's >> completely broken interface to newsgroups - your post consists >> of nearly 200 lines of text containing all I wrote, with an empty >> line inserted between each of them, and a single line of text >> you wrote. It's rather annoying to have to sieve through that >> much of unrelated stuff just to find thar one line that's re- >> levant. > > Gmail automatically hides long quotes. This is helpful in situations > like this one. More mail software should implement that > functionality. Seriously: once you go Gmail, you never go back. I use Gmail, but the automated hiding of long quotes is *disrupted* by the double-spacing. So it's no less important to avoid breaking protocol. ChrisA