On Saturday, 10 November 2018 at 18:47:19 UTC, Chris Katko wrote:
On Saturday, 10 November 2018 at 13:53:14 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
[...]
There is another possibility. Have the website run (fallible)
heuristics to detect a snippet of code and automatically
generate it. That would leave the mailing list people
completely unchanged.
[...]
Simply using markup convention used in stackoverflow and reddit
of formatting as code when indented by 4 blanks would already be
a good step forward. I do it now even on newsgroup like
comp.lang.c, the only newsgroup I still use via thunderbird
(yeah, for the D groups I prefer the web interface which is
really that good, contrary to all other web based newsgroup
reader I ever saw).
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