Usenet vs. Mailing-list
Peter J. Holzer
hjp-python at hjp.at
Sun Jan 29 09:33:01 EST 2023
On 2023-01-29 02:09:28 -0000, Jon Ribbens via Python-list wrote:
> I'm not aware of any significant period in the last twenty-one years
> that
[the gateway]
> hasn't been working. Although sometimes it does feel like it isn't, in
> that I reply to a post with an answer and then several other people
> reply significantly later with the same answer, as if my one had never
> existed...
That's just because people don't read before they post.
Happens in any usenet group or mailing list (and probably in web forums,
too; but I don't really use those). I have to admit that I'm sometimes
guilty of this behaviour, too.
hp
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