On Tuesday, November 21, 2017 at 7:06:18 PM UTC+5:30, Rustom Mody wrote: > On Tuesday, November 21, 2017 at 5:27:42 PM UTC+5:30, Ned Batchelder wrote: > > On 11/20/17 9:50 AM, Stefan Ram wrote: > > > Ned Batchelder writes: > > >> Also, why set headers that prevent the Python-List mailing list from > > >> archiving your messages? > > > I am posting to a Usenet newsgroup. I am not aware of any > > > "Python-List mailing list". > > > > > > I am posting specifically to the Usenet, because I am aware > > > of it's rules and I like it and wish to support it. > > > > > > I do not post to a "mailing list" because I do not know which > > > rules apply for mailing lists and whether mailing lists in > > > general or any specific mailing list is an environment that I > > > like or wish to support. > > > > > > > The dual nature of this online community has long been confusing and > > complicated. It's both a newsgroup and a mailing list. Add in Google > > Groups, and you really have three different faces of the same content. > > > > The fact is, posting to comp.lang.python means that your words are also > > being distributed as a mailing list. Because of your messages' headers, > > they are not in the archive of that list > > (https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2017-November/thread.html), > > or in Google Groups > > (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.python/0ejrtZ6ET9g). > > It makes for odd reading via those channels. > > > > I don't understand the motivation for limiting how words are > > distributed, but others on this list also do it. For example, Dennis Lee > > Bieber's messages are not in the Python-List archives either. If > > something is worth saying, why not let people find it later? > > To which I would add: > Setting headers is hardly a working method. > Somebody quotes Stefan or Dennis and they are on the archives > And some quote including emails some not > etc
O and one more thing: If Stefan or Dennis say something to the above dont expect a response from me since I would not have seen theirs 😉 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list