Re: This newsgroup (comp.lang.python) may soon be blocked by Google Groups

2018-02-04 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 04 Feb 2018 06:49:57 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 6:34 AM, Mark Lawrence > wrote: >> On 03/02/18 17:56, Peter J. Holzer wrote: >>> You seem to confuse the mailing-list and the newsgroup. The >>> mailing-list doesn't have a spam problem, and it is already (lightly)

Re: This newsgroup (comp.lang.python) may soon be blocked by Google Groups

2018-02-03 Thread alister via Python-list
On Sun, 04 Feb 2018 06:49:57 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 6:34 AM, Mark Lawrence > wrote: >> On 03/02/18 17:56, Peter J. Holzer wrote: >>> You seem to confuse the mailing-list and the newsgroup. The >>> mailing-list doesn't have a spam problem, and it is already (lightly)

Re: This newsgroup (comp.lang.python) may soon be blocked by Google Groups

2018-02-03 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 6:34 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 03/02/18 17:56, Peter J. Holzer wrote: >> You seem to confuse the mailing-list and the newsgroup. The mailing-list >> doesn't have a spam problem, and it is already (lightly) moderated. >> >> The newsgroup does have a spam problem (as well

Re: This newsgroup (comp.lang.python) may soon be blocked by Google Groups

2018-02-03 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 03/02/18 17:56, Peter J. Holzer wrote: On 2018-02-03 04:33:36 -0800, breamore...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, February 1, 2018 at 5:01:58 PM UTC, superchromix wrote: Our own programming discussion newsgroup, located at comp.lang.idl-pvwave, started receiving spam messages several months ago

Re: This newsgroup (comp.lang.python) may soon be blocked by Google Groups

2018-02-03 Thread Peter J. Holzer
On 2018-02-03 04:33:36 -0800, breamore...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, February 1, 2018 at 5:01:58 PM UTC, superchromix wrote: > > Our own programming discussion newsgroup, located at > > comp.lang.idl-pvwave, started receiving spam messages several months > > ago. > > > > Two weeks ago, access

Re: This newsgroup (comp.lang.python) may soon be blocked by Google Groups

2018-02-03 Thread breamoreboy
On Thursday, February 1, 2018 at 5:01:58 PM UTC, superchromix wrote: > Our own programming discussion newsgroup, located at comp.lang.idl-pvwave, > started receiving spam messages several months ago. > > Two weeks ago, access to comp.lang.idl-pvwave was blocked by Google Groups. > > When tryin

Re: This newsgroup (comp.lang.python) may soon be blocked by Google Groups

2018-02-03 Thread pyotr filipivich
breamore...@gmail.com on Sat, 3 Feb 2018 04:33:36 -0800 (PST) typed in comp.lang.python the following: >On Thursday, February 1, 2018 at 5:01:58 PM UTC, superchromix wrote: >> Our own programming discussion newsgroup, located at comp.lang.idl-pvwave, >> started receiving spam messages several mon

Re: This newsgroup (comp.lang.python) may soon be blocked by Google Groups

2018-02-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2018-02-02, dieter wrote: > jlada...@itu.edu writes: >> ... >> Let me ask those of you who are not using Google Groups: how do you search? >> In my experience, searching through mailing list archives has been poor. > > I am using "gmane.org" which has quite a good search (in my view). 1) Gma

Re: This newsgroup (comp.lang.python) may soon be blocked by Google Groups

2018-02-02 Thread Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer
i find the mail experience to be really nice and fool proof (except when some really bold spam makes it through) Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer https://abdurrahmaanjanhangeer.wordpress.com On 1 Feb 2018 21:09, "superchromix" wrote: > > Our own programming discussion newsgroup, located at comp.lang.id

Re: This newsgroup (comp.lang.python) may soon be blocked by Google Groups

2018-02-02 Thread Chris Green
jlada...@itu.edu wrote: > On Thursday, February 1, 2018 at 9:07:15 AM UTC-8, alister wrote: > > > simple solution stop using google groups & use either the mailing list or > > a news server with an NNTP client > > Sigh. I've been on Usenet since 1986. Is this how it ends? I will move if > I

Re: This newsgroup (comp.lang.python) may soon be blocked by Google Groups

2018-02-02 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 02 Feb 2018 08:24:36 +0100, dieter wrote: > jlada...@itu.edu writes: >> ... >> Let me ask those of you who are not using Google Groups: how do you >> search? In my experience, searching through mailing list archives has >> been poor. > > I am using "gmane.org" which has quite a good sear

Re: This newsgroup (comp.lang.python) may soon be blocked by Google Groups

2018-02-01 Thread dieter
jlada...@itu.edu writes: > ... > Let me ask those of you who are not using Google Groups: how do you search? > In my experience, searching through mailing list archives has been poor. I am using "gmane.org" which has quite a good search (in my view). Not sure, whether "gmane.org" hosts "your" ne

Re: This newsgroup (comp.lang.python) may soon be blocked by Google Groups

2018-02-01 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 01Feb2018 15:48, jlada...@itu.edu wrote: On Thursday, February 1, 2018 at 9:07:15 AM UTC-8, alister wrote: simple solution stop using google groups & use either the mailing list or a news server with an NNTP client Sigh. I've been on Usenet since 1986. Is this how it ends? I will move i

Re: This newsgroup (comp.lang.python) may soon be blocked by Google Groups

2018-02-01 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 01 Feb 2018 15:48:36 -0800, jladasky wrote: > Let me ask those of you who are not using Google Groups: how do you > search? In my experience, searching through mailing list archives has > been poor. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Amail.python.org+searching+through+mailing+list+archives

Re: This newsgroup (comp.lang.python) may soon be blocked by Google Groups

2018-02-01 Thread jladasky
On Thursday, February 1, 2018 at 9:07:15 AM UTC-8, alister wrote: > simple solution stop using google groups & use either the mailing list or > a news server with an NNTP client Sigh. I've been on Usenet since 1986. Is this how it ends? I will move if I must. Let me ask those of you who are

Re: This newsgroup (comp.lang.python) may soon be blocked by Google Groups

2018-02-01 Thread Pete Forman
mark...@gmail.com writes: > On Thursday, February 1, 2018 at 6:01:58 PM UTC+1, superchromix wrote: >> Our own programming discussion newsgroup, located at >> comp.lang.idl-pvwave, started receiving spam messages several months >> ago. >> >> Two weeks ago, access to comp.lang.idl-pvwave was blocked

Re: This newsgroup (comp.lang.python) may soon be blocked by Google Groups

2018-02-01 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2018-02-01, Jan van den Broek wrote: > On 2018-02-01, superchromix wrote: >> >> Our own programming discussion newsgroup, located at >> comp.lang.idl-pvwave, started receiving spam messages several >> months ago. >> >> Two weeks ago, access to comp.lang.idl-pvwave was blocked by Google >> Grou

Re: This newsgroup (comp.lang.python) may soon be blocked by Google Groups

2018-02-01 Thread Jan van den Broek
On 2018-02-01, superchromix wrote: > > Our own programming discussion newsgroup, located at comp.lang.idl-pvwave, >started receiving spam messages several months ago. > > Two weeks ago, access to comp.lang.idl-pvwave was blocked by Google Groups. > > When trying to access comp.lang.idl-pvwave,

Re: This newsgroup (comp.lang.python) may soon be blocked by Google Groups

2018-02-01 Thread mm0fmf
On 01/02/2018 17:15, Chris Angelico wrote: On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 4:01 AM, superchromix wrote: Our own programming discussion newsgroup, located at comp.lang.idl-pvwave, started receiving spam messages several months ago. Two weeks ago, access to comp.lang.idl-pvwave was blocked by Google Gr

Re: This newsgroup (comp.lang.python) may soon be blocked by Google Groups

2018-02-01 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 4:50 AM, wrote: > On Thursday, February 1, 2018 at 6:01:58 PM UTC+1, superchromix wrote: >> Our own programming discussion newsgroup, located at comp.lang.idl-pvwave, >> started receiving spam messages several months ago. >> >> Two weeks ago, access to comp.lang.idl-pvwave

Re: This newsgroup (comp.lang.python) may soon be blocked by Google Groups

2018-02-01 Thread markb77
On Thursday, February 1, 2018 at 6:01:58 PM UTC+1, superchromix wrote: > Our own programming discussion newsgroup, located at comp.lang.idl-pvwave, > started receiving spam messages several months ago. > > Two weeks ago, access to comp.lang.idl-pvwave was blocked by Google Groups. > > When try

Re: This newsgroup (comp.lang.python) may soon be blocked by Google Groups

2018-02-01 Thread markb77
On Thursday, February 1, 2018 at 6:22:22 PM UTC+1, Jack Dangler wrote: > On 02/01/2018 12:06 PM, alister via Python-list wrote: > > On Thu, 01 Feb 2018 09:01:35 -0800, superchromix wrote: > > > >> Our own programming discussion newsgroup, located at > >> comp.lang.idl-pvwave, started receiving spam

Re: This newsgroup (comp.lang.python) may soon be blocked by Google Groups

2018-02-01 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 4:01 AM, superchromix wrote: > > Our own programming discussion newsgroup, located at comp.lang.idl-pvwave, > started receiving spam messages several months ago. > > Two weeks ago, access to comp.lang.idl-pvwave was blocked by Google Groups. > > When trying to access comp.l

Re: This newsgroup (comp.lang.python) may soon be blocked by Google Groups

2018-02-01 Thread Tim Golden
On 01/02/2018 17:01, superchromix wrote: Our own programming discussion newsgroup, located at comp.lang.idl-pvwave, started receiving spam messages several months ago. Two weeks ago, access to comp.lang.idl-pvwave was blocked by Google Groups. When trying to access comp.lang.idl-pvwave, a mess

Re: This newsgroup (comp.lang.python) may soon be blocked by Google Groups

2018-02-01 Thread Jack Dangler
On 02/01/2018 12:06 PM, alister via Python-list wrote: On Thu, 01 Feb 2018 09:01:35 -0800, superchromix wrote: Our own programming discussion newsgroup, located at comp.lang.idl-pvwave, started receiving spam messages several months ago. Two weeks ago, access to comp.lang.idl-pvwave was bloc

Re: This newsgroup (comp.lang.python) may soon be blocked by Google Groups

2018-02-01 Thread alister via Python-list
On Thu, 01 Feb 2018 09:01:35 -0800, superchromix wrote: > Our own programming discussion newsgroup, located at > comp.lang.idl-pvwave, started receiving spam messages several months > ago. > > Two weeks ago, access to comp.lang.idl-pvwave was blocked by Google > Groups. > > When trying to access