[Tutor] python magazine

[Dave Angel]

Lowell Tackett wrote:
> >From the virtual desk of Lowell Tackett  
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> --- On Sat, 3/27/10, Dave Angel <davea at ieee.org> wrote:
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>> From: Dave Angel <davea at ieee.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Tutor] python magazine
>> To: "Lowell Tackett" <lowelltackett at yahoo.com>
>> Cc: "Benno Lang" <transmogribenno at gmail.com>, tutor at python.org
>> Date: Saturday, March 27, 2010, 6:12 AM
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>> Lowell Tackett wrote:
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>>> >From the virtual desk of Lowell Tackett  
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>>> --- On Fri, 3/26/10, Benno Lang <transmogribenno at gmail.com>
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>>> From: Benno Lang <transmogribenno at gmail.com>
>>> Subject: Re: [Tutor] python magazine
>>> To: "Lowell Tackett" <lowelltackett at yahoo.com>
>>> Cc: tutor at python.org,
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>> "Bala subramanian" <bala.biophysics at gmail.com>
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>>> Date: Friday, March 26, 2010, 8:38 PM
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>>> On 27 March 2010 00:33, Lowell Tackett <lowelltackett at yahoo.com>
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>>>> The Python Magazine people have now got a Twitter
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>> site--which includes a perhaps [telling] misspelling.
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>>> Obviously that's why they're looking for a chief
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>> editor - maybe it's
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>>> even a deliberate ploy.
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>>> I'm not sure if this affects others, but to me your
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>> replies appear
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>>> inside the quoted section of your mail, rather than
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>> beneath it. Would
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>>> you mind writing plain text emails to avoid this
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>> issue?
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>>> Thanks,
>>> benno
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>>> Like this...?
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>> No, there's still a problem.  You'll notice in this
>> message that there are ">" symbols in front of your lines
>> and benno's, and ">>" symbols in front of
>> Lowell's.  (Some email readers will turn the > into
>> vertical bar, but the effect is the same).  Your email
>> program should be adding those upon a reply, so that your
>> own message has one less > than the one to which you're
>> replying.  Then everyone reading can see who wrote
>> what, based on how many ">" or bars precede the
>> respective lines.  Quotes from older messages have more
>> of them.
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>> Are you using "Reply-All" in your email program?  Or
>> are you constructing a new message with copy/paste?
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>> What email are you using?  Maybe it's a configuration
>> setting somebody could help with.
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>> DaveA
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> Don't really know what I'm doing wrong (or right).  Just using the [email] tools that have been made available to me thru Yahoo mail and Firefox.  I began this text below your submission and "signature", and I'm using plain text, as suggested by a previous comment.  Don't know what else I could embellish this effort with.
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This time it worked great.  You can see my comments at outermost level, 
with yours indented by one, and my previous one indented two, etc.

DaveA