[Python-Dev] [OT] Re: Top-posting on this list (original) (raw)

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Sun Oct 11 12:01:36 CEST 2009

On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 03:26:41 pm Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

Indeed, and that's why I thanked Michael. Trimming can be a PITA if you're using a crummy MUA, and for reasons I have no intention of even trying to remember, let alone understand, a lot of people are very attached to their crummmy MUAs.

Perhaps I've never used a sufficiently crummy MUA, but I don't get this. Particularly for GUI apps on a PC, trimming just means: select text, press delete, repeat until done. How hard can it be? Surely even the crummiest MUA lets you delete text? This might be hard on a PDA or mobile phone, but on a PC with a keyboard and mouse?

(I have a vague recollection that Lotus Notes inserts the quoted message after you've done editing your reply, so Notes users should be forgiven. Not to mention pitied.)

-- Steven D'Aprano

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