On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 01:24:33 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 3/22/2014 12:30 AM, Mark H Harris wrote: >> On 3/21/14 11:15 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: >>> It compounds. One reply makes for double spacing... two makes >>> quadruple, three means we have seven wasted lines between every pair >>> of real lines. That gets pretty annoying. And considering that most >>> people who reply without cleaning up the lines also keep the entire >>> quoted text (and usually top-post as well), this gets big fast. > > Before Mark started asking people adjust to the foibles of gg, we used > to get such posts. I refused to read them. I have not seen one lately,
Luck you. I see them quite frequently. > say maybe his nudging has had some positive effect. > >> Yes, I can see that readily/ I get it, it just seems that fixing >> it >> at the source (gg) is the answer; > > I completely agree. However, Google seems immune to suggestions, > including requests that it try to stop being a major source of spam > posts. Remember, we are not Google's customers. We are Google's product. The customers are the advertisers. [...] > If I were in charge of the software used for this list, I would replace > Mark with a custom addition to return mis-formated posts (more blank > lines than not) with instructions on how to fix them. But I am not. Wouldn't it be less obnoxious and more useful to pass the posts through a filter that deletes the annoying blank lines? -- Steven D'Aprano http://import-that.dreamwidth.org/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
