On 09/30/2017 08:37 AM, boB Stepp wrote: > On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 9:55 AM, Albert-Jan Roskam > <sjeik_ap...@hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I often read messages to this list from my Android from the mobile Hotmail >> page. On other occasions I would read from my browser, from a Windows or a >> Linux desktop. Howver, Hotmail pretty much sucks when it comes to obeying >> the posting style [1]. It's even worse than Yahoo mail, which I've also >> tried (until they got hacked). Is there a recommended way to do this? Maybe >> gmail? I prefer to use more or less the same interface across platforms and >> devices, but this is not crucial. I've also been looking for pan-like apps >> (not necessarily free) for my Phone, but I couldn't find one that worked. >> Perhaps because I used a free news server (my ISP doesn't have one).
> > So if there is a better way that would make things uniformly *easy* > across all types of common devices, I would be interested, too! I > wonder what the people at Google use for lists like Tutor? I believe > there are some such people on the main list. > Thanks for asking, by the way! Honestly, those of us who care about the stuff in the reference are more and more being considered dinosaurs... email has pretty much moved on and almost finished leaving behind the plain-text option. When I worked for Samsung for a while, most of the company had to use an in-house developed mail system as it was the only "approved" one, and it simply had no option for not emitting styled emails (my organization as specifically charged with working in the open source world got an exemption, but that was highly rare). No I don't know how other companies deal with the "participate in external mailing list" scenario, there's certainly enough of them. I don't have good answers. I use K-9 on my android phone and it does fine, although occasionally throws up on _received_ emails with excess crud. You can set it up as a client of your gmail account if you wish, you don't have to use gmail to read gmail! Actually have more trouble on the desktop: I'm on some mailing list where almost all of the participants work in Outlook-only shops, and we'll get things like "my responses interleaved in blue" (guess what: Thunderbird on my Linux desktop set up the way I have it doesn't show those). Sometimes get some funky apparently Outlook-only list style markup come through as plain text rendering things completely unreadable. Big sigh... absolutely nothing I can do about the mess, just have to grit my teeth and muddle through. My surviving advice is "do the best you can", wish it was better. You can look at a message or two you've sent in an archive and see how bad it comes out, unfortunately reading your own email in the client that sent it doesn't usually accurately reflect what it will look like to others. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
