On 12/23/2013 09:12 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 5:09 PM, <ru...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> On Sunday, December 22, 2013 10:37:35 PM UTC-7, Chris Angelico wrote: >>> Actually, formatting errors ARE often caused by Google Groups. Maybe >>> it wasn't in this instance, but I have seen several cases of GG >>> mangling code formatting, so this was a perfectly reasonable theory. >> >> What sort of formatting errors have you seen and how did you >> determine it was Google Groups fault? You would need to know >> what the original message was, wouldn't you? Perhaps these >> were experiments you carried out yourself that you could share >> with us? > > Unless people were lying through their teeth when they said that their > posted code had worked on their system,
I don't recall many whitespace-broken posts where the poster claimed it wasn't what they posted. In the cases I remember they are chided about not copying and pasting and they either do so or don't respond further. As for lying, people sometimes lie because they don't want to admit a mistake. Or they often are just genuinely mistaken (memory is a complex and unreliable thing). So your cynical presumption that they must be "lying through their teeth" or telling the truth is not is not credible. And there is more than GG involved when you get a message from GG. It has long been a criticism of Python's significant whitespace that it is easily corrupted by message transports and those criticisms predate GG. So, assuming I was actually was unlucky enough to miss all the OP claims that GG FU'd their posts that you claim to have seen, there are still plenty of other possible reasons for whitespace corruption beyond GG. > I can be pretty sure it was > the fault of the delivery mechanism. Bad logic. *You* can be sure on whatever basis you want but to convince anyone else not predisposed to your biases, you need quite a bit more than your handwaving. For all I know, you may be right. But you've not presented any evidence. I post from GG and I've not noticed any whitespace corruption problems. > Dig through the archive. Err, no thanks. I don't have hours to waste chasing down your dubious assertions. How about you do that instead? And show that the rate is much higher from GG than other sources proportionally and that difference is due to GG and not just a difference in the experience or skill of the posting populations, or gateway problems etc. > Also, > you haven't answered the other part of the post, the more important > part. Refresh my memory please. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list