On 2021-09-26, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: Thanks for the tips on registering an application for oauth2 credentials. It sounds like I should be able to do that if I practice my hoop-jumping a bit more.
> (But I'd still recommend an app password. Much easier.) Yes, I really should go with the 2FA and app-password option. Do you need the 2nd factor every time you connect to GMail via a browser or Android Gmail app? Or just the first time for each browser/device? A bit of studying seems to be in order no matter what. :) I had initially thought that oauth2 was going to be the easier row to hoe, but it had a lot more roots and rocks than I thought. >> I could continue to read the list with slrn, but post using something >> like Thunderbird, but do I really want to set up a whole new MUA just >> for one mailing list? [The other 20+ mailing lists I follow are all >> happy with posts from gmane.] > > I'm not sure whether the policy change happened on python-list, or at > gmane. From the look of the error message you got, it may have > actually been gmane's decision. Haven't heard anything from the list > admins here about it, either way, so I have no idea. I'm just guessing, but I can't imagine that gmane's owner would have done that unless python-list itself started to refuse posts (or the python-list admins requested that gmane stop sending posts). -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list