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In mulling over some comments in the thread "Please use plain text", I
have a suggestion. I offered in that thread that it might be useful to
allow people to post images and videos. They can sometimes be very
useful for understanding what's going on with a problem. I've certainly
posted video elsewhere, in the case of hardware mostly. I suppose it
might be helpful if one is stumped by some interactive graphics program
to show the problem by video. One response was that such sites are
generally available. In any case, here's the suggestion. It seems to me
that the Python organization should have a special web site that allows
images, formated program text, video or graphics that can be referred
to by posts from the mail lists. Leave the lists for pure text. As an aside, I would suggest that the mail lists come to some common ground. In the last few weeks, I've joined about 3-4, and may be about to join 2 more. What's striking about them is that the posting methodology is inconsistent. For example, in Tutor one can post html code without much ado. In the PIL list, such a post will immediately go to the moderator as suspicious. Now you are stuck in wait mode for approval. I don't really recall if the message gets approved and posted. What does work is posting as text. I could be wrong about this, but someone who posts to various Python lists might know. There are other anomalies, but I'll stop here. --
Wayne Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
(121.01 Deg. W, 39.26 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
"Less than all cannot satisfy Man." -- William Blake
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