New to Python: Features

[Richard Blackwood]

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>
> As another point of protocol, when you reply to a long
> post do not quote the entire post only to add a few lines
> at the end.  It maybe the easiest way for you to reply
> but it's annoying to those who have to read it.  Why?
> Suppose you actually did reply to Josiah's question in
> #28.  We as readers need to be careful in our scan of
> the reply to see if any of your response is hidden somewhere
> in the depths.  We don't know that you only added one
> line to the end of the email.
>
> As a consideration to others you can do something like I
> did above, to indicate that many lines were deleted, or
> use some other way to trim the amount of quoted text.
>
>                 Andrew
>                 dalke at dalkescientific.com

I expect you mean like the above snip work of mine.  I am not new to 
usenet but I had the perhaps lazy occurance of forgetting to snip the 
other post.  Thanks for the tip anyhow.