On 2012-11-30, Jim Graham <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 09:57:50AM -0500, Mark H. Wood wrote:
>
>> I don't think it was about sending mail through a .gmail address; it
>> was about using the GMail web thingy to compose the mail being sent,
>
> People actually USE that POS!?
Definitely.
Most of them have absolutely no clue that there's any other way to
access what the believe are forums run by Google -- but which in
reality are Usenet news groups or mailing lists host by various
non-Google sites.
> The e-mail lists (now only one left) that I've created all have/had
> the web page UI disabled. Nobody complained.
The main Python mailing list gets regular posts from Google Groups.
Those posts are always malformatted (the formatting seems to change
over the years, but it never actually gets better). The ones that
aren't just spam are always very badly written and rarely contain
enough information to even guess what the poster is asking, let alone
formulate a useful answer. Attempts to pry useful information from
the poster usually prove fruitless.
I killfiled all postings from google groups years ago...
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