in need of some help...

[Chris Angelico]

On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Jens Thoms Toerring <jt at toerring.de> wrote:
> Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 7:56 AM, Jens Thoms Toerring <jt at toerring.de> wrote:
>> > Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick <kwpolska at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Gmail automatically hides long quotes.  This is helpful in situations
>> >> like this one.  More mail software should implement that
>> >> functionality.  Seriously: once you go Gmail, you never go back.
>> >
>> > i giess you mean Gougle groups and not Gmail, which I can't comment
>> > on since I don't use it.
>
>> No, Chris (not me, the other Chris... *an*other Chris.... okay, one of
>> the chorus of Chrises of this list!) did mean Gmail, the Google
>> webmail client. It does threading (and does it better than
>> SquirrelMail does), and it does the hiding of long quotes, long
>> signatures, etc.
>
> Ok, sorry then about that - as I said I never have used Gmail
> (and don't plan using it for other reasons than usability - and
> then I would hardly consider anything with a web interface for a
> text medium to be very usable;-). But, as far as I understand,
> Gmail is about email, so I'm a bit at a loss to understand what
> got this to do with news groups and Google groups (were the post
> I originally was responing to according to the header seemed to
> be coming from) that I intended this to be about?

Since you can subscribe to the mailing list python-list at python.org and
get all of comp.lang.python (sans a pile of spam), you can read it as
a threaded mailing list instead of a newsgroup. It comes to pretty
much the same thing, so effectively you get your choice of technology.

ChrisA