On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 02:24:15PM -0500, eryksun wrote: > On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> > wrote: > > Did you really have to send an entire digest, without changing the title, > > just to send this one line? > > Gmail's composer top posts unless the text to quote is selected > beforehand. [...]
This explains the faux pas, it doesn't excuse it. Gmail is, in my opinion, a *terrible* mail client. It makes what should be easy hard, what should be hard impossible, and encourages the dumbing down of communication. It is bad enough that non-technical people cannot control their email beyond clicking "Forward" and "Reply". But when people who have expectations of being programmers cannot even control what they send out as an email, well, that's just shameful. And Google has to take a large part of the blame for that. On the other hand, even the best of us have made silly mistakes, sent an email to the wrong place, forgotten to change the subject line, left people out of the CC list, quoted too much or too little. To err is human, to forgive is humane. We've all made mistakes. What matters is not the mistake itself, but what comes next. To the Original Poster, whoever you are... I hope you'll hang around here and learn something useful. Hopefully it will be good and effective email skills as well as Python programming. -- Steven _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
