Re: Meta question: disappearing posts (was Re: calculating a self.value, self.randomnum = normalvariate(x, y))

2009-06-24 Thread Ross Ridge
Ross Ridge rri...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: I'm not sure what MIME would have to do with it, but Piet van Oostrum's problem is almost certainly as result of the python.org mail to news gateway mangling the References header. The missing postings he's looking for don't actually exist. Just go

Re: Meta question: disappearing posts (was Re: calculating a self.value, self.randomnum = normalvariate(x, y))

2009-06-23 Thread Aahz
In article h1o1dk$hm...@rumours.uwaterloo.ca, Ross Ridge rri...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: Aahz a...@pythoncraft.com wrote: Piet van Oostrum p...@cs.uu.nl wrote: I notice that I see several postings on news:comp.lang.python that are replies to other postings that I don't see. As stated

Re: Meta question: disappearing posts (was Re: calculating a self.value, self.randomnum = normalvariate(x, y))

2009-06-22 Thread Ross Ridge
Piet van Oostrum p...@cs.uu.nl wrote: I notice that I see several postings on news:comp.lang.python that are replies to other postings that I don't see. Aahz a...@pythoncraft.com wrote: As stated previously, my suspicion is that at least some is caused by a problem with MIME messages and the

Meta question: disappearing posts (was Re: calculating a self.value, self.randomnum = normalvariate(x, y))

2009-06-21 Thread Piet van Oostrum
I notice that I see several postings on news:comp.lang.python that are replies to other postings that I don't see. Examples are the postings by Dennis Lee Bieber wlfr...@ix.netcom.com that I am replying to (but I break the thread on purpose). For example the posting with Message-ID:

Re: Meta question: disappearing posts (was Re: calculating a self.value, self.randomnum = normalvariate(x, y))

2009-06-21 Thread Chris Rebert
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 5:25 AM, Piet van Oostrump...@cs.uu.nl wrote: I notice that I see several postings on news:comp.lang.python that are replies to other postings that I don't see. Examples are the postings by Dennis Lee Bieber wlfr...@ix.netcom.com that I am replying to (but I As

Re: Meta question: disappearing posts (was Re: calculating a self.value, self.randomnum = normalvariate(x, y))

2009-06-21 Thread Terry Reedy
Piet van Oostrum wrote: I notice that I see several postings on news:comp.lang.python that are replies to other postings that I don't see. Examples are the postings by Dennis Lee Bieber wlfr...@ix.netcom.com that I am replying to (but I break the thread on purpose). For example the posting with

Re: Meta question: disappearing posts (was Re: calculating a self.value, self.randomnum = normalvariate(x, y))

2009-06-21 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Piet van Oostrum wrote: I notice that I see several postings on news:comp.lang.python that are replies to other postings that I don't see. I see the same problem. I suspect it's because of over-vigorous spam filtering from Usenet providers. Some even block everything from anyone using Google

Re: Meta question: disappearing posts (was Re: calculating a self.value, self.randomnum = normalvariate(x, y))

2009-06-21 Thread greg
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: unless one is reading from a server that interprets X-no-archive to mean delete before reading. Can't be too careful with security. Destroy it, memorize it and then read it! -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Meta question: disappearing posts (was Re: calculating a self.value, self.randomnum = normalvariate(x, y))

2009-06-21 Thread Aahz
In article m21vpddb9y.fsf...@cs.uu.nl, Piet van Oostrum p...@cs.uu.nl wrote: I notice that I see several postings on news:comp.lang.python that are replies to other postings that I don't see. As stated previously, my suspicion is that at least some is caused by a problem with MIME messages and