Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!news-out.readnews.com!transit3.readnews.com!panix!not-for-mail From: Grant Edwards Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Simple Question regarding running .py program Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 02:55:56 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 52 Message-ID: References: <22ae6963-6700-4ea7-b396-344d89ead7f2@googlegroups.com> <8085ebf2-9f08-4889-84c9-f786d6776001@googlegroups.com> <5f1bf680-ca10-446e-abbc-d3ba55327f2d@googlegroups.com> <6c3c5341-1fb4-4664-80b8-d3e08687830f@googlegroups.com> <50a42449$0$29978$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-118-110-103.hsd1.mn.comcast.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1353034556 18962 24.118.110.103 (16 Nov 2012 02:55:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 02:55:56 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9p1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:33409 On 2012-11-15, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 15/11/2012 21:29, rurpy@yahoo.com wrote: > > All I'll say is that when I read something on gmane via Thunderbird on > Windows Vista on any of the 25 Python mailing lists that I subscribe to, > I don't want to read the double spaced crap that comes from G$. Doesn't Thunderbird have a scoring, blocking, or blacklisting facility to allow you to hide/ignore those posts? I have slrn hide all postings with headers that contain a line that matches this (case-insensitve) RE: Message-ID: .*googlegroups.com > I hence perceive a problem. Indeed. > 1) G$ are too interested in making huge profits and so have no interest > in people who have to read the garbage that originates from them. While I generally find Google to be mostly non-evil[1] (at least when compared to most other behmouth companies), their attitude regarding Google Groups is notably awful. > 2) People who are too bone idle to get hold of any other mechanism that > doesn't put the double spaced garbage in. Or it could be they're too ignorant to know there's a problem. Trying to explain the problem and the available options is, IME, pointless. Even if you can drag them along to the point where they understand there's a problem and they can do something about it, as long as people read and respond to their posts, they've got no motivation to do so. > Any and all answers to this dilemma are welcome. I just gave up and now ignore posts from Google Groups. I've decided there's no point it trying to change either Google Groups itself or the people who use it. I occasionally see most/all of posts from GG when they get quoted in followups, and never have I had occasion to wish I hadn't missed a GG posting. [1] OK, so I'm am annoyed with them after my Google phone updated to Android 4.2 this afternoon and the lock-screen clock is now _physically_painful_ to look at. However, I'm convinced that's not evil -- just a complete and utter lack of visual design ability. -- Grant