Google Groups mirror (Was: Bootstrap script for package management tool in Python 2.7)
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek@gmail.com> wrote:
Anatoly, I am now answering only in Distutils-SIG.
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 3:45 PM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik@gmail.com> wrote: [..]
Seems like I start to hate mailing lists even more with all this message duplication and thread following nightmare. Why can't people here create a Google Groups mirror? -- anatoly t.
anatoly techtonik <techtonik <at> gmail.com> writes:
Seems like I start to hate mailing lists even more with all this message duplication and thread following nightmare. Why can't people here create a Google Groups mirror?
There are already gmane mirrors, such as: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.devel
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote:
anatoly techtonik <techtonik <at> gmail.com> writes:
Seems like I start to hate mailing lists even more with all this message duplication and thread following nightmare. Why can't people here create a Google Groups mirror?
There are already gmane mirrors, such as: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.devel
Do you use it yourself for thread subscription? My point is that gmane mouse clicking interface is insane. They can not fold quotations. And if you'll look attentively you won't find most of messages from ongoing discussion about bootstrap script for package management. -- anatoly t.
There are already gmane mirrors, such as: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.devel
Do you use it yourself for thread subscription?
I don't think there's any "thread subscription", if you mean subscribing to individual threads.
My point is that gmane mouse clicking interface is insane. They can not fold quotations.
Neither can some e-mail clients. It's up to posters to quote (that is, strip quotes) properly. Gmane also allows you to use NNTP, though, perhaps you can find an NNTP client which has the desired quoting UI :)
And if you'll look attentively you won't find most of messages from ongoing discussion about bootstrap script for package management.
Yes, gmane seems to have some strange "duplicate suppression" algorithm which doesn't go well with cross-posting.
anatoly> Why can't people here create a Google Groups mirror? Whoever "people here" are could, I suppose. I wouldn't mind a read-only mirror but would not be a fan of a two-way mirror because Google seems to do an awful job of weeding out spam. In any case, the correct place to submit such a request would be postmaster@python.org. Skip
anatoly techtonik wrote:
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek@gmail.com> wrote:
Anatoly, I am now answering only in Distutils-SIG.
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 3:45 PM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik@gmail.com> wrote: [..]
Seems like I start to hate mailing lists even more with all this message duplication and thread following nightmare. Why can't people here create a Google Groups mirror?
I would surmise that most people on python-dev do what I do and subscribe to an NNTP (Usenet news) source. In my case Thunderbird does a great job of presenting the content, though there is no thread subscription. Google Groups have their disadvantages too. I personally dislike "web forum" style interfaces. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 See PyCon Talks from Atlanta 2010 http://pycon.blip.tv/ Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ UPCOMING EVENTS: http://holdenweb.eventbrite.com/
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