Usenet vs. Mailing-list (was: evaluation question)
Dennis Lee Bieber
wlfraed at ix.netcom.com
Sat Jan 28 16:36:26 EST 2023
On Sat, 28 Jan 2023 15:30:59 +0100, "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-python at hjp.at>
declaimed the following:
>On 2023-01-27 21:04:58 +0000, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>> Muttley at dastardlyhq.com writes:
>>
>> > Hi
>>
>> It looks like you posted this question via Usenet. comp.lang.python is
>> essentially dead as a Usenet group. It exists, and gets NNTP versions
>> of mail sent to the mailing list, but nothing posted to the group via
>> NNTP get send on the mailing list.
>
>This is wrong. I did get Muttley's any your postings via the
>mailing-list.
>
I had been tempted to ask when the list<>newsgroup link had changed,
since it hadn't been announced...
Now -- last time I checked the gmane server says posting is prohibited.
I used to use gmane as it retrieved directly from the mailing list (which
has been filtered from much spam) and not Usenet (and its open spam
problem).
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