Meta question: disappearing posts (was Re: calculating a self.value, self.randomnum = normalvariate(x, y))

[Steven D'Aprano]

Piet van Oostrum wrote:

> I notice that I see several postings on news:comp.lang.python that are
> replies to other postings that I don't see.

I see the same problem.

I suspect it's because of over-vigorous spam filtering from Usenet
providers. Some even block everything from anyone using Google Groups. It's
quite frustrating, to have perfectly valid Python-related posts go missing
while dozens of posts offering to sell well-known brands of shoes and
watches are delivered.


-- 
Steven