On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Jens Thoms Toerring <j...@toerring.de> wrote: > Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 7:56 AM, Jens Thoms Toerring <j...@toerring.de> >> wrote: >> > Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick <kwpol...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Gmail automatically hides long quotes. This is helpful in situations >> >> like this one. More mail software should implement that >> >> functionality. Seriously: once you go Gmail, you never go back. >> > >> > i giess you mean Gougle groups and not Gmail, which I can't comment >> > on since I don't use it. > >> No, Chris (not me, the other Chris... *an*other Chris.... okay, one of >> the chorus of Chrises of this list!) did mean Gmail, the Google >> webmail client. It does threading (and does it better than >> SquirrelMail does), and it does the hiding of long quotes, long >> signatures, etc. > > Ok, sorry then about that - as I said I never have used Gmail > (and don't plan using it for other reasons than usability - and > then I would hardly consider anything with a web interface for a > text medium to be very usable;-). But, as far as I understand, > Gmail is about email, so I'm a bit at a loss to understand what > got this to do with news groups and Google groups (were the post > I originally was responing to according to the header seemed to > be coming from) that I intended this to be about?
Since you can subscribe to the mailing list python-list@python.org and get all of comp.lang.python (sans a pile of spam), you can read it as a threaded mailing list instead of a newsgroup. It comes to pretty much the same thing, so effectively you get your choice of technology. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
