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From: Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
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On 11/28/2013 10:40 AM, Michael Torrie wrote:
> On 11/28/2013 08:08 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> Which is easier, fiddling around with your setup so you can post
>> reasonably on Google Groups, or just getting a better client? With
>> your setup, you have to drop out to another editor and press F9 for it
>> to work. With pretty much any other newsreader on the planet, this
>> works straight off, no setup necessary.
>>
>> I'm still going to advise people to stop using buggy rubbish.
>
> My opinion is that the Python list should dump the Usenet tie-in

I am beginning to think this also.

> and just go straight e-mail.

email + gmane newsgroup mirror

 > Python is the only list I'm on that has a usenet gateway.

1000 of techical mlists have a gmane mirror. There are over 200 just for 
Python.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy