[Tutor] OT: Preferred email client for sending plain text programming code snippets

[Sydney Shall]

On 18/02/2015 03:48, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 17/02/2015 23:23, boB Stepp wrote:
>> Hopefully this is not a touchy subject like Emacs vs. Vim. ~(:>))
>>
>> My home PC uses Win7-64bit. I currently use Chrome, Gmail and have a
>> Nexus 5 phone. The nice thing about all of this is that all of my
>> information usually seamlessly syncs. That is nice! But I am getting
>> increasingly frustrated with Gmail in terms of communicating with this
>> group (and sometimes others). It seems that if I am not constantly
>> attentive, my settings change from plain text to html, or, now, my New
>> Courier fixed-width font vanishes from the Gmail ecosystem and cannot
>> be found. I actually have come to prefer plain text communication as I
>> only rarely need html formatting. And I rarely care to see most of the
>> crap people send me that require html!
>>
>> So are there any recommendations from this group that would make
>> things easy, would still be able to receive/send from my Gmail
>> account, etc.?
>>
>
> Thunderbird.  Access to 300+ Python mailing lists, blogs and the rest
> all in one place via gmane.  Personally I've never had a single problem
> with it.
>
Mark,
Could you give  us or point us towards some simple instructions as how 
one uses gmane.comp.python.tutor with Thunderbird. I had a go and I have 
found it daunting.
Thanks

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Sydney