[Tutor] Ways of removing consequtive duplicates from a list

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

On Sun, 17 Jul 2022 00:52:20 -0400, <avi.e.gross at gmail.com> declaimed the
following:

>I did not blame the sender as much as say what trouble I had putting
>together in proper order what THIS mailer showed me. I am using Microsoft
>Outlook getting mail with IMAP4 from gmail and also forwarding a copy to AOL
>mail which was also driving me nuts by making my text look like that when I
>sent. Oddly, that one received the lines nicely!!!
>
	Personally, I don't trust anything gmail and/or GoogleGroups produces
<G>... And, hopefully without offending, I find M$ Outlook to be the next
offender. My experience (when I was employed, and the companies used
Outlook as the only email client authorized) was that it went out of its
way to make it almost impossible to respond in accordance with RFC1855

"""
    - If you are sending a reply to a message or a posting be sure you
      summarize the original at the top of the message, or include just
      enough text of the original to give a context.  This will make
      sure readers understand when they start to read your response.
      Since NetNews, especially, is proliferated by distributing the
      postings from one host to another, it is possible to see a
      response to a message before seeing the original.  Giving context
      helps everyone.  But do not include the entire original!
"""

	Outlook, in my experience, attempts to replicate corporate mail
practices of ages past. Primarily by treating "quoted content" as if it
were a photocopy being attached as a courtesy copy/reminder (I've seen
messages that had something like 6 or more levels of indentation and
font-size reductions as it just took the content of a post, applied an
indent (not a standard > quote marker) shift and/or font reduction). 

	Attempting to do a trim to relevant content with interspersed reply
content was nearly impossible as one had to figure out how to under the
style at the trim point -- otherwise one's inserted text ended up looking
just like the quoted text and not as new content.

	I'll admit that I've seen configuration options to allow for something
closer to RFC1855 format... But they were so buried most people never see
them. Instead we get heavily styled HTML for matters which only need simple
text.


>
>I may be getting touchy without the feely, but I am having trouble listening
>to the way some people with cultural differences, or far left/right
>attitudes, try to address me/us in forums like this. Alex may have been
>amused by my retort, and there is NOTHING wrong with saying "Dear Sirs" when
>done in many contexts, just like someone a while ago was writing to
>something like "Esteemed Professors" but it simply rubs me wrong here.
>
	The one that most affects me are those that start out with: "I have
doubt..." where "doubt" is being used in place of "question".


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