Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed3a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!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 0.003 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:not': 0.03; 'subject:Python': 0.06; 'subject:file': 0.07; 'suggestions,': 0.07; 'lines.': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'jan': 0.12; 'agree.': 0.16; 'effect.': 0.16; 'mean,': 0.16; 'quoted': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'reedy': 0.16; 'subject: \n ': 0.16; 'subject:log': 0.16; 'top-post': 0.16; 'fix': 0.17; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'seems': 0.21; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'convenient': 0.24; 'replace': 0.24; 'source': 0.25; 'posts': 0.26; 'asking': 0.27; 'gets': 0.27; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'tried': 0.27; 'chris': 0.29; 'am,': 0.29; 'lines': 0.31; 'requests': 0.31; 'usually': 0.31; 'fast.': 0.31; 'fixing': 0.31; 'text': 0.33; 'charge': 0.33; 'not.': 0.33; 'maybe': 0.34; 'but': 0.35; 'google': 0.35; 'there': 0.35; 'adjust': 0.36; 'positive': 0.37; 'two': 0.37; 'list': 0.37; 'being': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'list,': 0.38; 'pm,': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'major': 0.40; 'how': 0.40; 'read': 0.60; 'blank': 0.60; 'most': 0.60; 'new': 0.61; 'entire': 0.61; 'received:173': 0.61; 'real': 0.63; 'such': 0.63; 'reply': 0.66; 'between': 0.67; 'lately,': 0.84; 'received:fios.verizon.net': 0.84; 'immune': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Terry Reedy Subject: Re: Python MSI not installing, log file showing name of a Viatnemese communist revolutionary Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 01:24:33 -0400 References: <827c7585-6c2a-4329-861f-0fdaa629b050@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-173-75-254-207.phlapa.fios.verizon.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 In-Reply-To: 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: 29 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1395465895 news.xs4all.nl 2906 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:51042 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:68749 On 3/22/2014 12:30 AM, Mark H Harris wrote: > On 3/21/14 11:15 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: >> It compounds. One reply makes for double spacing... two makes >> quadruple, three means we have seven wasted lines between every pair >> of real lines. That gets pretty annoying. And considering that most >> people who reply without cleaning up the lines also keep the entire >> quoted text (and usually top-post as well), this gets big fast. Before Mark started asking people adjust to the foibles of gg, we used to get such posts. I refused to read them. I have not seen one lately, say maybe his nudging has had some positive effect. > Yes, I can see that readily/ I get it, it just seems that fixing it > at the source (gg) is the answer; I completely agree. However, Google seems immune to suggestions, including requests that it try to stop being a major source of spam posts. > because there will always be someone > new to the list who is using gg because its part of their suite and > because its convenient (I mean, that's why I tried to use it). If I were in charge of the software used for this list, I would replace Mark with a custom addition to return mis-formated posts (more blank lines than not) with instructions on how to fix them. But I am not. -- Terry Jan Reedy