Question about mailing list rules

[Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick]

On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Devyn Collier Johnson
<devyncjohnson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 07/12/2013 07:11 AM, Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 8:44 PM, Devyn Collier Johnson
>>> <devyncjohnson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I am going to love this mailing list even more.
>>>>
>>>> Really, only Python code? I wanted to ask Python users about Perl! (^u^)
>>>>
>>>> Devyn Collier Johnson
>>>
>>> Heh. You'd be surprised what comes up. If it's at least broadly
>>> related to Python (maybe you're comparing constructs in Python and
>>> Perl??), it'll probably be accepted. And even stuff that's completely
>>> off-topic does at times get discussed.
>>>
>>> One small thing, though. Please avoid top-posting; the convention on
>>> this list is to quote text above, and write yours underneath. Makes it
>>> easier to follow the flow of conversation. Thanks!
>>>
>>> ChrisA
>>> --
>>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>>
>> One more thing Devyn should do is watch the “To:” field and make sure
>> it says python-list at python.org, because the above message was sent to
>> Chris only, and that is not what should happen most of the time.
>> Another option is to use Reply All, but it will make old Usenet hags
>> angry, because they would get two copies.
>>
>> --
>> Kwpolska <http://kwpolska.tk> | GPG KEY: 5EAAEA16
>> stop html mail                | always bottom-post
>> http://asciiribbon.org        | http://caliburn.nl/topposting.html
>
> Thank you and sorry about that.
>
> Kwpolska, I noticed your email shows "stop html mail" at the bottom. I have
> Thunderbird setup to use HTML mail. Are my emails coming up as plain text or
> HTML on this mailing list?
>
> Devyn Collier Johnson

Apparently, it comes in plaintext.  Mailman does not say that it
removed HTML, so it should be fine.  Either way, there should be a
switch in the new message window to set what should be sent.

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