Ben Finney writes: > "Stephen J. Turnbull" <step...@xemacs.org> writes: > > > Trimming can be a PITA if you're using a crummy MUA > > How so? It merely requires the ability to navigate up and down by lines, > and to select and delete text. I've used some very crummy MUAs, but the > ability to trim quoted text has never been absent or difficult.
Not difficult, time-consuming. It can take many seconds to scroll to bottom in a 200-line quote with gmail and the webmail system used by the University of California at Santa Cruz. You bet I get down on my knees and give thanks that my other MUA is an Emacs every time I have to use webmail. Please note that I'm not defending the practice of top-posting; I'm trying to understand why anybody would do it, and address the readability issue in that context. A sentinel that says "the next 500 lines are whatever happened to be in the tail of the 16KiB block on the file system" does help. If others are willing to play bad cop, as Aahz did, I'd be very happy to accept the benefit of a cleaned-up list. But I'm not willing to do it myself. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
