[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > >> I try not to top-post in this group, but the strange formatting of the >> message makes this advisable, as I am sure many people won't even >> persist in reading down as far as the "content". >> >> Can I make a wild-assed guess that you are a Lotus Notes user reading >> python-list? Please try and find a way of not barfing these awful >> headers out with your post (perhaps you could use a newsgroup reader and >> access the gmane servers?). >> >> It really does make it difficult to focus on what you say when there are >> twenty-odd lines of badly-formatted heading information at the start of >> each message. >> >> regards >> Steve > > What amuses me (honestly, it does make me chuckle) is people can put up > with a bunch of text like that as a reply on the list (and including > previous disclaimers, which I've been slapped-wrist on here for before > now), yet complain about a bit of odd formatting at the top of a message > with real content. > > However I do understand where your coming from. You are right, I'm a Lotus > Notes user. If I didn't have to use it I wouldn't. If I had access to the > list from where I currently work any other way I would use that. I am aware > people dont enjoy spurious details like disclaimers and Note's headers in > emails. > > I forgot to remove the Notes header at the top for that last post, I do > apologise for any inconvenience. I did remove the previous disclaimers > though, so you only got two that time. Ohwell, everyone makes mistakes :) > > Thanks, > > Matt. (Apologies for the disclaimers etc...) > Yeah, well, some things we can't help. Like I can't help being a crotchety old bastard sometimes. Sorry, and thanks for the explanation.
I realise there is no chance your mail admins will remove the useless disclaimer, but could you ask them to put a "-- " line above it? That way us folks with mailers that at least attempt standards-compliance don't have to delete it from our replies (or, even worse, forget to, and leave multiple copies in - yes, we do all make mistakes, and sadly I'm no exception). I did at least forbear from writing back pointing out I wasn't the intended recipient, etc., etc. :-) Anyway, glad you got a pointer to the solution from Dennis. curmudgeon-ly y'rs - steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
