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No tabs in post PLEASE!!! (was Re: partial list sort)

Steve Holden sholden at holdenweb.com
Thu Oct 10 08:58:22 EDT 2002 
"Daniel T." <a at b.c> wrote in message
news:a-0FC205.08290510102002 at nnrp05.earthlink.net...
> Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> wrote:
>
> > Terry Reedy wrote:
> >         ...
> > > Tabs are bad for Usenet posting if you want stupid people like me who
> > > use Outlook Express to read posted code.
> >
> > Seconded!  They're almost as bad for (expletive deleted) people like ME,
> > who use KDE's KNode (0.6.1 with KDE 2.2.2 at least, haven't tried more
> > recent versions yet).
> >
> > PLEASE folks, even if you're tabs-maniacs, make SURE you turn them
> > into spaces when posting or mailing your sources...!!!
>
> You have got to be kidding...

Well, that all depends whether you want readers to be able to see the code
as you wrote it rather than the code as mangled by whatever gets in the way
between your fingers and their eyeballs. While I try to stay away from
religious issues, this is something that all posters should be aware of.

So, by all means use tabs on your code if that's how you want to do it, but
remember that people aren't likely to want to reconstruct your indentation
if you post it that way and the tabs get thrown out. So you'll be that much
less likely to get a reply.

And please don't tell me to change my mail client :-). While that's not a
religious issue either, I use what I use for particular reasons, as do many
others.

Sorry.
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