On Mar 11, 2014, at 1:49 AM, Alan Gauld <alan.ga...@btinternet.com> wrote: > > Not from the tutor list though. It only has a few > mails normally - less than 50 most days. > Actually now that you say that most of the emails are coming through the reg python-lists, not the tutor section. I guess I should just unsubscribe from python-lists because my questions are going through the tutor section for awhile. >> I’m not trying to be rude I’m just wondering, > > What tends to irritate folks is the HTML content > which different readers display differently. > Especially the indentation which often gets lost. > You need to explicitly go into your mail tool > options and select "plain text" rather than > "rich text" or "HTML" which will likely be the > default. > > You can often tell if you don't have plain text > because you will have options to change font, > size, colour etc. You can't do any of that with > plain text. But modern mail tools often make it > very difficult to set plain text, especially > web based ones. > Yeah, I had no idea that my messages were coming through in HTML, nor what it looked like until someone sent me a section showing me what it looked like, I can see how that would be frustrating.
I’m using the mail app on my macbook pro, any suggestions on how to stop it from going out as html? Do I need to change the font? Also, I think last time I sent a section of my code I copy and pasted it from my script, could that be the problem? Thanks again! _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
