Re: Usenet vs. Mailing-list (was: evaluation question)

2023-01-31 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2023-01-31, Alan Gauld wrote: > On 28/01/2023 21:36, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > >> Now -- last time I checked the gmane server says posting is prohibited. >> I used to use gmane as it retrieved directly from the mailing list > > I still use gmane but its no posting thing is a pain

Re: Usenet vs. Mailing-list (was: evaluation question)

2023-01-31 Thread Alan Gauld
On 28/01/2023 21:36, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > Now -- last time I checked the gmane server says posting is prohibited. > I used to use gmane as it retrieved directly from the mailing list I still use gmane but its no posting thing is a pain because responding (or posting new stuff) is a

Re: Usenet vs. Mailing-list

2023-01-31 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2023-01-31, Anssi Saari wrote: > Grant Edwards writes: > >> No. FWIW, it's the mailing list that's blocking them, not Gmane. >> >> That's why I wrote this: >> >> https://github.com/GrantEdwards/hybrid-inews >> >> It's an inews work-alike that submits most posts via gmanes NNTP >> server,

Re: Usenet vs. Mailing-list

2023-01-31 Thread Anssi Saari
Grant Edwards writes: > No. FWIW, it's the mailing list that's blocking them, not Gmane. > > That's why I wrote this: > > https://github.com/GrantEdwards/hybrid-inews > > It's an inews work-alike that submits most posts via gmanes NNTP > server, but will deal with particular groups > (e.g.

Re: Usenet vs. Mailing-list

2023-01-30 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2023-01-28, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jan 2023 20:07:44 +, Chris Green declaimed the > following: > > >>As far as I am aware the mirroring of the Python mailing list on >>comp.lan.python works perfectly. I love gmane! :-) > > Is gmane's gmane.comp.python.general

Re: Usenet vs. Mailing-list

2023-01-30 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2023-01-28, Chris Green wrote: > As far as I am aware the mirroring of the Python mailing list on > comp.lan.python works perfectly. I love gmane! :-) If gmane stopped working, I'd have to retire and give up on computers. I supposed I might be able to hammer procmail and mutt into

Re: Usenet vs. Mailing-list

2023-01-29 Thread Jon Ribbens via Python-list
On 2023-01-29, Peter J. Holzer wrote: > On 2023-01-29 02:09:28 -, 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

Re: Usenet vs. Mailing-list

2023-01-29 Thread Ben Bacarisse
Igor Berger writes: > On Saturday, January 28, 2023 at 10:02:57 PM UTC-5, Ben Bacarisse wrote: >> Jon Ribbens writes: >> >> > On 2023-01-29, Ben Bacarisse wrote: >> >> "Peter J. Holzer" writes: >> >> >> >>> On 2023-01-27 21:04:58 +, Ben Bacarisse wrote: >>

Re: Usenet vs. Mailing-list

2023-01-29 Thread Igor Berger
On Saturday, January 28, 2023 at 10:02:57 PM UTC-5, Ben Bacarisse wrote: > Jon Ribbens writes: > > > On 2023-01-29, Ben Bacarisse wrote: > >> "Peter J. Holzer" writes: > >> > >>> On 2023-01-27 21:04:58 +, Ben Bacarisse wrote: > mut...@dastardlyhq.com writes: > > > Hi

Re: Usenet vs. Mailing-list

2023-01-29 Thread Peter J. Holzer
On 2023-01-29 02:09:28 -, 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

Re: Usenet vs. Mailing-list

2023-01-28 Thread Ben Bacarisse
Jon Ribbens writes: > On 2023-01-29, Ben Bacarisse wrote: >> "Peter J. Holzer" writes: >> >>> On 2023-01-27 21:04:58 +, Ben Bacarisse wrote: mutt...@dastardlyhq.com writes: > Hi It looks like you posted this question via Usenet. comp.lang.python is

Re: Usenet vs. Mailing-list

2023-01-28 Thread Jon Ribbens via Python-list
On 2023-01-29, Ben Bacarisse wrote: > "Peter J. Holzer" writes: > >> On 2023-01-27 21:04:58 +, Ben Bacarisse wrote: >>> mutt...@dastardlyhq.com writes: >>> >>> > Hi >>> >>> It looks like you posted this question via Usenet. comp.lang.python is >>> essentially dead as a Usenet group. It

Re: Usenet vs. Mailing-list

2023-01-28 Thread Ben Bacarisse
"Peter J. Holzer" writes: > On 2023-01-27 21:04:58 +, Ben Bacarisse wrote: >> mutt...@dastardlyhq.com writes: >> >> > Hi >> >> It looks like you posted this question via Usenet. comp.lang.python is >> essentially dead as a Usenet group. It exists, and gets NNTP versions >> of mail sent

Re: Usenet vs. Mailing-list

2023-01-28 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, 29 Jan 2023 at 12:07, Chris Green wrote: > > Chris Green wrote: > > Jon Ribbens wrote: > > > On 2023-01-28, Peter J. Holzer wrote: > > > > On 2023-01-27 21:04:58 +, Ben Bacarisse wrote: > > > >> It looks like you posted this question via Usenet. comp.lang.python is > > > >>

Re: Usenet vs. Mailing-list

2023-01-28 Thread Dennis Lee Bieber
On Sat, 28 Jan 2023 20:07:44 +, Chris Green declaimed the following: >As far as I am aware the mirroring of the Python mailing list on >comp.lan.python works perfectly. I love gmane! :-) Is gmane's gmane.comp.python.general allowing posts to go through again? I had to revert to

Re: Usenet vs. Mailing-list

2023-01-28 Thread Chris Green
Chris Green wrote: > Jon Ribbens wrote: > > On 2023-01-28, Peter J. Holzer wrote: > > > On 2023-01-27 21:04:58 +, Ben Bacarisse wrote: > > >> It looks like you posted this question via Usenet. comp.lang.python is > > >> essentially dead as a Usenet group. It exists, and gets NNTP versions

Re: Usenet vs. Mailing-list

2023-01-28 Thread Chris Green
Jon Ribbens wrote: > On 2023-01-28, Peter J. Holzer wrote: > > On 2023-01-27 21:04:58 +, Ben Bacarisse wrote: > >> It looks like you posted this question via Usenet. comp.lang.python is > >> essentially dead as a Usenet group. It exists, and gets NNTP versions > >> of mail sent to the

Re: Usenet vs. Mailing-list (was: evaluation question)

2023-01-28 Thread Jon Ribbens via Python-list
On 2023-01-28, Peter J. Holzer wrote: > On 2023-01-27 21:04:58 +, Ben Bacarisse wrote: >> It looks like you posted this question via Usenet. comp.lang.python is >> essentially dead as a Usenet group. It exists, and gets NNTP versions >> of mail sent to the mailing list, but nothing posted

Re: Usenet vs. Mailing-list (was: evaluation question)

2023-01-28 Thread Dennis Lee Bieber
On Sat, 28 Jan 2023 15:30:59 +0100, "Peter J. Holzer" declaimed the following: >On 2023-01-27 21:04:58 +, Ben Bacarisse wrote: >> mutt...@dastardlyhq.com writes: >> >> > Hi >> >> It looks like you posted this question via Usenet. comp.lang.python is >> essentially dead as a Usenet group.