On 10/25/2013 06:19 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 26/10/2013 00:44, ru...@yahoo.com wrote: >> On 10/25/2013 02:05 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: >>> On 10/25/2013 2:57 PM, Peter Cacioppi wrote: >>>> The default >>>> Google Group client is notoriously cruddy with quotes attribution. >>> >>> So don't use it. Get any decent newsreader, such as Thunderbird, and >>> access the list at news.gmane.org as gmane.comp.python.general. >> >> Peter, you can ignore Terry's "advice" if Google Groups works for you. >> There are a small number of Google haters here who seem larger due to >> their obnoxious noisiness. >> >> I've been using Google Groups to post here for many years and with a >> little care it is usable without annoying anyone except a few drooling >> fanatics. All access methods have pros and cons (and I've posted here >> about many of TB numerous cons) so if the usability tradeoff favors >> GG for you (or anyone else) I recommend you not be intimidated by >> the anti-GG goon squad. > > Thunderbird cons - I've never known any.
That's odd, because in https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.python/FFAe5sJ7kQ4/GmDtHitY50QJ I responded to a direct question from you about problems with Thunderbird. If you mean instead that because *you've* experienced no problems, then none exist, that's your business but I hope you don't carry that attitude into your programming Further, that post was only with technical issues related to TB; in another thread in which you participated, I explained some of the other usability tradeoffs, issues of personal choice and preference which clearly vary between users, for example in: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.python/Rxw7H4yNGh4/WRZDOzZd76oJ https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.python/Rxw7H4yNGh4/41hZ3Si5G0cJ https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.python/Rxw7H4yNGh4/jKu57BLvqIUJ I question your judgement if you see you own preferences for TB as being absolute and applicable to everyone. The idea that there exists any access method for reading this list that has *no* cons is ludicrous. > Google groups cons - continual > streams of messages on a daily basis that are double spaced despite > umpteen requests to follow instructions so the crap doesn't get > repeated. Just how difficult is it? Are you prepared to pay for my new > glasses, as the eye strain caused by google crap really does get to me. You are being absurd. If you are seriously willing to damage your eyesight because you feel compelled to read every post here then you should seek psychological help right away. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
