Usenet vs. Mailing-list

[Jon Ribbens]

On 2023-01-29, Peter J. Holzer <hjp-python at hjp.at> wrote:
> 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.

Well, let's just assume for a moment that I'm familiar with Usenet and
with mailing lists ;-) This sort of replying-without-reading seems to
happen on comp.lang.python/python-list more than usual.