Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-08-23 Thread l v
Xah Lee wrote: > (circa 1996), and email should be text only (anti-MIME, circa 1995), I think e-mail should be text only. I have both my email and news readers set to display in plain text only. It prevents the marketeers and spammers from obtaining feedback that my email address is valid. A

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-08-23 Thread l v
Mike Schilling wrote: > "l v" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Xah Lee wrote: >> >>>(circa 1996), and email should be text only (anti-MIME, circa 1995), >> >>I think e-mail should be text only. I have

Re: application and web app technologies

2006-01-03 Thread l v
ccc wrote: > [snip] We are just your basic IT shop, system > and network administration, hardware, help desk, the web site, and > database administration. This is also the reason for the 'bad code' ( > which we have in abundance.) People who are not programmers and whose > job it isn't to program w

Re: [Python-Dev] Why don't range and xrange threat floats as floats?

2008-11-05 Thread L V
python 2.5 Since it was an indirect suggestion, I thought it belonged here. What should python-list and python-dev both be used for? I know there is an alternative, but why not make it easier? From: Matthieu Brucher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: L V <[EMAIL

How to set up this usenet discussion?

2010-06-16 Thread L V
I have installed pan, but I fail to make it work with "news:comp.lang.python"; I tried adding the name as a newsserver and left all other info like Port, username and password empty. Stil I don't get any messages. How to fix this. Also I'm completely new to newsgroups. -- http://mail.pyt