On Tuesday, July 3, 2018 at 4:00:03 PM UTC-4, Ben Finney wrote: > T Berger <brg...@gmail.com> writes: > > > I'm posting directly to the forum (computer.lang.python, at this web > > address: > > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.python/vWCvLYjOWUQ) > > Thanks for being specific. So, from that description, you are using the > Google Groups web interface to read and send messages in this forum. > > That is not “posting directly to the forum”, because this forum doesn't > have a single canonical direct location. (And if it did, that location > would certainly not be Google Groups.)
I don't have to tell you that I find this all very confusing. > > And I have to apologize. The threads in my previous conversation, > > ERRNO 48: Address already in use, are so extensive and hierarchical, > > that they appear to be out of order. They're not. > > Right. I gather, from many complaints by Google Groups users over many > years, that it is a terrible interface for interacting with any forum. > > The lack of proper threading support is just one of many well-known bugs > that Google show no sign of correcting. They show every sign, in fact, > of having no interest in listening to the requests from users of that > software. Ben, you may not have finished reading my post. It turns out that I was wrong in thinking that the posts were out of order; they were just so hard to follow because of all the side conversations. Once I carefully followed the threads I saw that I had been wrong. > Given that history, you might want to avoid Google Groups for > interacting with forums, and choose software that works better with > discussion forums. I am told Mozilla Thunderbird is a good choice, but > there are likely others. I don't think I want to try a mail list. I had subscribed to the python-list a few weeks ago and then been forced to unsubscribe because of the flood of irrelevant posts. Ben, I tried responding to your email from gmail. I hit the reply button, and got the below message. Do you know why? Mail Delivery Subsystem <mailer-dae...@google.com> 6:05 PM (5 hours ago) Reply to me Final-Recipient: rfc822; comp.lang.pyt...@googlegroups.com Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 Diagnostic-Code: smtp; Posting by email is not allowed, to post to this group visit https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/comp.lang.python Last-Attempt-Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2018 15:05:28 -0700 (PDT) Tamara -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
