Teaching python to non-programmers

[Chris Angelico]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 8:46 PM, alister
<alister.nospam.ware at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Right up to the point when someone forwards on an internal email chain to
> an external customer without bothering to prune out the bit where someone
> (usually an engineer like myself) has stated (bluntly) that what the
> salesman is proposing will never work*.
>
> the longer the chain the more likely it is for something like that to be
> missed by the sender who wont have bothered to read everything (for some
> reason the recipient always finds the embarrassing statements).
>
> *Or some other commercially sensitive & even more damming piece of
> information.

According to Snopes, that has happened in an email variant of the old
"send this guy the standard cockroach letter" story (which is itself
plausible and not provably false):

http://www.snopes.com/business/consumer/bedbug.asp

ChrisA