[Tutor] Request for help with code

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Wed Nov 7 02:52:48 EST 2018


On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 06:32:25PM -0500, Joel Goldstick wrote:

[snip nearly seven screens of quoted text]

> still not indented.. sorry.. figure that out

Hey Joel, is the Backspace key on your keyboard broken? :-)

This sort of mass (and unnecessary) quoting is why Bottom-Posting gets a 
bad reputation. The reader shouldn't have to scroll through 6+ 
screenfuls of text to see your one, solitary comment. Please snip the 
quoted text to the minimum needed to establish context.

If your mail client doesn't allow deleting the quoted text (and you 
can't get a better mail client!) it is better to Top-Post (heresy!), 
provided your signature shows up above the quoting so we know to stop 
reading.

Thanks in advance,



-- 
Steve


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