Fractional Hours from datetime?

[David Robinow]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> "Alf P. Steinbach" <alfps at start.no> writes:
>
>> And considering this, and the fact that Google's archive is now the
>> main Usenet archive, message id's are not that useful, really.
>
> You've demonstrated only that Google is an unreliable Usenet archive.
>
> One doesn't even need to use Usenet, in this case, since
> comp.lang.python is a forum distributed both as a Usenet forum and a
> mailing-list forum.
>
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> Ben Finney
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> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>
 The archive at http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/  doesn't
show the message id either.
However, the monthly gzip'ed text file does have them.

FWIW, for you google-haters, I read python-list using gmail and I
don't see any message id's.
Great spam detection though.