Announcement: Obfuscated Python competition

JanC usenet_spam at janc.invalid
Tue May 20 19:02:04 EDT 2003


Graham Nicholls <graham at rockcons.co.uk> schreef:

>> It's possible to produce bad quoting with any newsreader. But Outlook
>> Express users are particularly good at it, because their newsreader
>> was heavily optimized for this behaviour.
> 
> I hope that you aren't implying what I think you are ;-) - this comes
> to you from one of my multiple Linux (& Unix) boxes.  I'm running
> KDE3.x on SuSE8.2.  This is knode.

He was talking about Terry Reedy's quote of your text.

Microsoft hasn't been able to fix this bug for about 5 or 6 years, but 
fortunately there was someone who got annoyed enough to fix it in a matter 
of days:  <http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/>  ;-)

-- 
JanC

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