>From the virtual desk of Lowell Tackett
--- On Sat, 3/27/10, Dave Angel <da...@ieee.org> wrote:
> From: Dave Angel <da...@ieee.org>
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] python magazine
> To: "Lowell Tackett" <lowelltack...@yahoo.com>
> Cc: "Benno Lang" <transmogribe...@gmail.com>, tutor@python.org
> Date: Saturday, March 27, 2010, 6:12 AM
>
>
> Lowell Tackett wrote:
> > >From the virtual desk of Lowell Tackett
> >
> > --- On Fri, 3/26/10, Benno Lang <transmogribe...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > From: Benno Lang <transmogribe...@gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Tutor] python magazine
> > To: "Lowell Tackett" <lowelltack...@yahoo.com>
> > Cc: tutor@python.org,
> "Bala subramanian" <bala.biophys...@gmail.com>
> > Date: Friday, March 26, 2010, 8:38 PM
> >
> > On 27 March 2010 00:33, Lowell Tackett <lowelltack...@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> The Python Magazine people have now got a Twitter
> site--which includes a perhaps [telling] misspelling.
> >>
> > Obviously that's why they're looking for a chief
> editor - maybe it's
> > even a deliberate ploy.
> >
> > I'm not sure if this affects others, but to me your
> replies appear
> > inside the quoted section of your mail, rather than
> beneath it. Would
> > you mind writing plain text emails to avoid this
> issue?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > benno
> >
> > Like this...?
> >
> >
> >
> No, there's still a problem. You'll notice in this
> message that there are ">" symbols in front of your lines
> and benno's, and ">>" symbols in front of
> Lowell's. (Some email readers will turn the > into
> vertical bar, but the effect is the same). Your email
> program should be adding those upon a reply, so that your
> own message has one less > than the one to which you're
> replying. Then everyone reading can see who wrote
> what, based on how many ">" or bars precede the
> respective lines. Quotes from older messages have more
> of them.
>
> Are you using "Reply-All" in your email program? Or
> are you constructing a new message with copy/paste?
>
> What email are you using? Maybe it's a configuration
> setting somebody could help with.
>
> DaveA
>
>
Don't really know what I'm doing wrong (or right). Just using the [email]
tools that have been made available to me thru Yahoo mail and Firefox. I began
this text below your submission and "signature", and I'm using plain text, as
suggested by a previous comment. Don't know what else I could embellish this
effort with.
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