But I must remember to cc tutor@python.org when replying to you.
-----Original Message----- From: uga...@talktalk.net To: alan.ga...@btinternet.com Sent: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 13:15 Subject: Re: [Tutor] masking library files It is off, and I don't appear have an option to turn it on in plain text. I have this option, but but only in rich text/html, and as you see it top posts, which I quite like. Yes, but delete all the junk such as extraneous headers/footers as I did above. It does actually make the conversation much easier to follow than top posting. I appreciate many modern mail tools do top posting as default (thanks Microsoft! :-( ) but for conversations its much easier to use inline comments. For a good, fairly short, balanced, explanation of how it helps, see this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style It helps if you have quoting turned on in your mail tool too - yours doesn't seem to be using quotes at present (Quoting means the >>> bits in the message above - the number of > characters tells you how far back in the conversation it was) -- Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/alangauldphotos -----Original Message----- From: Alan Gauld <alan.ga...@btinternet.com> To: tutor@python.org Sent: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 12:23 Subject: Re: [Tutor] masking library files On 10/04/14 10:30, uga...@talktalk.net wrote: > On 10/04/2014 02:20, uga...@talktalk.net wrote: >> Please write in plain English if you want to be understood. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Dave Angel <da...@davea.name> >> To: tutor@python.org >>> >> >> A message left in invisible ink. Please post in text form, not >> html, as html offers too many ways to mess up the message. >> >> >> > > Please don't top post on this list. And don't use language like that > if you want answers, especially when replying to a highly respected > member of this community such as Dave. > > Mark Lawrence > > > Like this? Yes, but delete all the junk such as extraneous headers/footers as I did above. It does actually make the conversation much easier to follow than top posting. I appreciate many modern mail tools do top posting as default (thanks Microsoft! :-( ) but for conversations its much easier to use inline comments. For a good, fairly short, balanced, explanation of how it helps, see this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style It helps if you have quoting turned on in your mail tool too - yours doesn't seem to be using quotes at present (Quoting means the >>> bits in the message above - the number of > characters tells you how far back in the conversation it was) -- Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/alangauldphotos _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
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