On 10/13/2015 06:42 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > but AOL users say that they get a single block of text with no > paragraphs. I'm not sure if that means that it just lacks the blank > lines between paragraphs, or if it means that the entire post is > converted to a single paragraph.
Friends don't let friends use AOL (or Yahoo). OK, that's only a little bit facetious, but there is apparently an AOL formatting issue here. Using Thunderbird, I sent your post to an AOL account. Your original looked good as I received it from the mailman-users list. What I sent looked good in my sent folder. It also looked good in my Thunderbird inbox for my AOL account (IMAP). When I looked at it in AOL's web client, it was garbled. The 'paragraph' structure with blank lines was there, but the paragraphs were rewrapped strangely. E.g your paragraph > but AOL users say that they get a single block of text with no > paragraphs. I'm not sure if that means that it just lacks the blank > lines between paragraphs, or if it means that the entire post is > converted to a single paragraph. renders in AOL's client as > but > AOL users say that they get a single block of text with no > paragraphs. I'm not > sure if that means that it just lacks the blank > lines between paragraphs, or if > it means that the entire post is > converted to a single paragraph. So, I don't see exactly what your users report, but I do see anomalous rendering. Bottom line is this is an AOL issue. Possibly sending without the hard returns except at paragraph breaks would help. I just tried that, and it's better, but there are still extraneous line breaks after 'but' in the above paragraph and after 'Has anyone' in the subsequent paragraph. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
