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On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Jens Thoms Toerring <jt@toerring.de> wrote:
> Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 7:56 AM, Jens Thoms Toerring <jt@toerring.de> wrote:
>> > Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick <kwpolska@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> 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 giess you mean Gougle groups and not Gmail, which I can't comment
>> > on since I don't use it.
>
>> No, Chris (not me, the other Chris... *an*other Chris.... okay, one of
>> the chorus of Chrises of this list!) did mean Gmail, the Google
>> webmail client. It does threading (and does it better than
>> SquirrelMail does), and it does the hiding of long quotes, long
>> signatures, etc.
>
> Ok, sorry then about that - as I said I never have used Gmail
> (and don't plan using it for other reasons than usability - and
> then I would hardly consider anything with a web interface for a
> text medium to be very usable;-). But, as far as I understand,
> Gmail is about email, so I'm a bit at a loss to understand what
> got this to do with news groups and Google groups (were the post
> I originally was responing to according to the header seemed to
> be coming from) that I intended this to be about?

Since you can subscribe to the mailing list python-list@python.org and
get all of comp.lang.python (sans a pile of spam), you can read it as
a threaded mailing list instead of a newsgroup. It comes to pretty
much the same thing, so effectively you get your choice of technology.

ChrisA

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in need of some help... Alex Norton <ayjayn1101@gmail.com> - 2013-04-30 15:06 -0700
  Re: in need of some help... Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-01 08:13 +1000
    Re: in need of some help... Alex Norton <ayjayn1101@gmail.com> - 2013-04-30 15:30 -0700
      Re: in need of some help... Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-04-30 17:02 -0600
        Re: in need of some help... Alex Norton <ayjayn1101@gmail.com> - 2013-04-30 16:20 -0700
          Re: in need of some help... Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-05-01 00:01 -0400
          Re: in need of some help... Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-01 14:37 +1000
            Re: in need of some help... Alex Norton <ayjayn1101@gmail.com> - 2013-05-01 03:27 -0700
          Re: in need of some help... jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2013-05-01 12:15 +0000
            Re: in need of some help... Alex Norton <ayjayn1101@gmail.com> - 2013-05-01 16:24 -0700
            Re: in need of some help... Alex Norton <ayjayn1101@gmail.com> - 2013-05-10 01:23 -0700
              Re: in need of some help... jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2013-05-11 22:20 +0000
                Re: in need of some help... Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick <kwpolska@gmail.com> - 2013-05-12 17:59 +0200
                Re: in need of some help... jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2013-05-12 21:56 +0000
                Re: in need of some help... Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-13 08:18 +1000
                Re: in need of some help... jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2013-05-12 22:58 +0000
                Re: in need of some help... Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-13 09:08 +1000
                Re: in need of some help... Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-13 10:51 +1000
                Re: in need of some help... Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-05-12 19:47 -0400
                Re: in need of some help... Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2013-05-13 20:10 +1200
                Re: in need of some help... Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-13 02:08 +1000
                Re: in need of some help... Alex Norton <ayjayn1101@gmail.com> - 2013-05-12 12:34 -0700

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