[Python-ideas] Is this group via google groups read only?

[MRAB]

On 2015-08-20 16:25, Thomas Güttler wrote:
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> Am 20.08.2015 um 14:32 schrieb Steven D'Aprano:
>> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 08:52:19AM +0200, Thomas Güttler wrote:
>>> Hi,
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>>> I wrote a message to this group via google groups yesterday.
>>>
>>> This message did not arrive here.
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>> What address did you send to?
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> I did not send an email. I used the web interface at:
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>     https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/python-ideas
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> I would be happy if the name of the group could be changed from
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> "a mirror of the python-ideas at python.org mailing list for the general public"
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> to
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> "a **read only** mirror of the python-ideas at python.org mailing list for the general public"
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As you discovered, it's not a read-only mirror, because you _can_ post
to it. It's just that posts sent to the mirror appear only on the
mirror.

> Who can do this? I could not find a way to contact an owner of this mirror.
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The owner of Google Groups would, not surprisingly, be Google! :-)

> Regards,
>     Thomas Güttler
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>> If I understand correctly, email to
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>>      python-ideas at googlegroups.com
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>> will only go to Google Groups, but email to
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>>      python-ideas at python.org
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>> will come to this mailing list, and from there, it will be mirrored at
>> various places, such as Gmane and Google Groups. This is out of our
>> control, as far as I understand it is entirely Google's decision to have
>> GoogleGroups behave the way it does, and there is nothing we can do
>> about it.
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>>> Is the google group interface to this group read only?
>>>
>>> If yes. It is confusing that you can post via google groups.
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>> Complain to Google. They won't care, but they could fix this if they
>> wanted to.
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