Finally had to plonk google gorups.

[Michael Torrie]

Mike Driscoll wrote:
> Steve,
> 
> My workplace doesn't offer NNTP, so there is no good way to browse
> c.l.py here. And I haven't been able to get NNTP to work from my home
> either.

I rarely use NNTP these days.  I access c.l.py exclusively via e-mail,
and that works very well.  In some cases there is a lot of spam that
gets filtered out of the nntp side, but makes it through to the smtp
side (like that religious spam a few months back).  But I see absolutely
none of the google groups problems that Grant mentioned.  I view my
python list mail in gmail, and get about 1-2 spam messages a day in the
python list.

This official python list is one of the few lists that's even still on
nntp.  All my other ones (gnome, gtk, openldap, clamav, freeradius, etc)
are all e-mail mailing lists only and it works very well.  In fact, I
think it's much better since list subscription can actually be
controlled by someone.