A bit OT: Python prompts display as nested mail quotes in Thunderbird

[Roel Schroeven]

Joel Hedlund schreef:
> Hi
> 
> Sorry to bother you with my OT problems, but my newsgroup reader 
> (Thunderbird) displays explicitly written python prompts as triple 
> nested mail quotes (with lines in alternating colors in the margins). 
> That's pretty tiresome to look at in a python newsgroup. Therefore, I'm 
> looking for a way to display messages from this newsgroup *In Plain Text*.
> 
> Has anyone else encountered/solved this problem? Should I get another 
> newsgroup reader? In that case, which? I'm running Thunderbird 1.0.7 on 
> Ubuntulinux 5.10.

I have the same problem, but it doesn't bother me that much. However, a 
workaround could be pressing CTRL-U (or View > Message Source); that 
brings up the source of the message, with no colors applied to the quotes.

Do you have the Quote Colors extension? It has an option 'Enable 
graphical quoting for plain text messages'. If you uncheck that, 
Thunderbird will use normal quote characters for plain text messages. 
You can also disable the use of colors in the options, but that will 
remove the colors for all messages.

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on the shoulders of giants.  -- Isaac Newton

Roel Schroeven