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| From | Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick <kwpolska@gmail.com> |
| Date | 2013-05-12 17:59 +0200 |
| Subject | Re: in need of some help... |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Message-ID | <mailman.1583.1368374425.3114.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
(slightly offtopic, sorry.) On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 12:20 AM, Jens Thoms Toerring <jt@toerring.de> wrote: > PS: If I may ask you a favor: consider refraining from using Google's > completely broken interface to newsgroups - your post consists > of nearly 200 lines of text containing all I wrote, with an empty > line inserted between each of them, and a single line of text > you wrote. It's rather annoying to have to sieve through that > much of unrelated stuff just to find thar one line that's re- > levant. Gmail automatically hides long quotes. This is helpful in situations like this one. More mail software should implement that functionality. Seriously: once you go Gmail, you never go back. > And this Google groups crap seems to make it nearly > impossible to do it any other way. If you don't believe me see > e.g. > > http://wiki.python.org/moin/GoogleGroupsPython > > There are much better alternatives to "Google groups", > using a real usenet news server and a program that does > not mess up content of news group postings. They've been > developed with 30 years of experience with newsgroups. Or something even better: a mailing list. http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list is where you can find it. Much friendlier than Usenet, and the software itself is developed by the FLUFL. > If I'd be conspiracy theorist I would conclude that Google > is up to something bad in trying to make using newsgroups > nearly impossible by their badly broken stuff (and, to add > credibility to such a claim, their complete disregard for > all the criticism they got over the years, actually making > each version of Google groups even worse), but it's rather > likely just another case of pure incompetence (or a "why > should we care" attitude:-( They shouldn’t care because Usenet users often yell “Get off my lawn!”. Young people don’t use newsgroups. They don’t even know what Usenet is. -- Kwpolska <http://kwpolska.tk> | GPG KEY: 5EAAEA16 stop html mail | always bottom-post http://asciiribbon.org | http://caliburn.nl/topposting.html
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in need of some help... Alex Norton <ayjayn1101@gmail.com> - 2013-04-30 15:06 -0700
Re: in need of some help... Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-01 08:13 +1000
Re: in need of some help... Alex Norton <ayjayn1101@gmail.com> - 2013-04-30 15:30 -0700
Re: in need of some help... Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-04-30 17:02 -0600
Re: in need of some help... Alex Norton <ayjayn1101@gmail.com> - 2013-04-30 16:20 -0700
Re: in need of some help... Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-05-01 00:01 -0400
Re: in need of some help... Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-01 14:37 +1000
Re: in need of some help... Alex Norton <ayjayn1101@gmail.com> - 2013-05-01 03:27 -0700
Re: in need of some help... jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2013-05-01 12:15 +0000
Re: in need of some help... Alex Norton <ayjayn1101@gmail.com> - 2013-05-01 16:24 -0700
Re: in need of some help... Alex Norton <ayjayn1101@gmail.com> - 2013-05-10 01:23 -0700
Re: in need of some help... jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2013-05-11 22:20 +0000
Re: in need of some help... Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick <kwpolska@gmail.com> - 2013-05-12 17:59 +0200
Re: in need of some help... jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2013-05-12 21:56 +0000
Re: in need of some help... Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-13 08:18 +1000
Re: in need of some help... jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2013-05-12 22:58 +0000
Re: in need of some help... Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-13 09:08 +1000
Re: in need of some help... Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-13 10:51 +1000
Re: in need of some help... Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-05-12 19:47 -0400
Re: in need of some help... Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2013-05-13 20:10 +1200
Re: in need of some help... Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-13 02:08 +1000
Re: in need of some help... Alex Norton <ayjayn1101@gmail.com> - 2013-05-12 12:34 -0700
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