On Mon, 6 Apr 2015 09:23 pm, Dylan Evans wrote: [content snipped]
Hi Dylan, and welcome! If you're going to post in response to people's questions, would you please disable HTML email and trim your responses? This mailing list is mirrored on Usenet, as comp.lang.python, where HTML is against the rules of the newsgroup and is considered rude. If you're planning on sticking around as a regular contributor, and we hope you do, the best way to read this group is to use individual emails, not digests. When you reply to a digest, unless you trim the response, we get a copy of the ENTIRE digest, in this case eighteen posts we have already seen before. And then *doubled*, because Gmail sends a plain text version plus a HTML version. So we get 1855 lines of text shoved down our throat, including a massive block of rubbish that looks like this: <head><style>body=7Bfont-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px=7D</= style></head><body style=3D=22word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: s= pace; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;=22><div id=3D=22bloop=5Fcust= omfont=22 style=3D=22margin: 0px;=22><div><blockquote type=3D=22cite=22 c= lass=3D=22clean=5Fbq=22 style=3D=22color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helv= etica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; = font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans= : auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-= space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width= : 0px;=22></blockquote>> I would like to distribute a python package w= ith different code for <br><blockquote type=3D=22cite=22 class=3D=22= clean=5Fbq=22 style=3D=22color: rgb(0, 0, 0); and so on for a couple of pages. Wonderful, right? I understand that Gmail is a pig about these sorts of things, and makes it really hard to avoid breaking list etiquette. We appreciate whatever you can do, and while a few of us may bark occasionally, we don't bite. If you're using Thunderbird, it has an option to disable sending HTML to certain addresses. If you need help finding that option, don't hesitate to ask and I'm sure somebody will be happy to give you instructions. To the rest of the list... didn't somebody write up a wiki post on how to convince Gmail to be less unreasonable about top posting, quoting, etc? Does anyone still have the link? Thanks, -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
