Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!news.tele.dk!feed118.news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.007 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.04; 'think,': 0.07; 'lawrence': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'tismer': 0.09; 'runs': 0.10; 'python': 0.11; 'crashed': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'roy': 0.16; 'usenet': 0.16; 'language': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'trying': 0.19; '>>>': 0.22; 'programming': 0.22; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'alternate': 0.24; 'guys': 0.24; 'people,': 0.24; 'second': 0.26; 'header:X -Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'quickly': 0.29; 'scale': 0.29; '>>>>': 0.31; 'probably': 0.32; 'monday,': 0.33; '"the': 0.34; 'december': 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'google': 0.35; 'christian': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'anything': 0.39; 'does': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'even': 0.60; 'world.': 0.61; 'back': 0.62; 'situation': 0.65; 'charset:windows-1252': 0.65; 'portal': 0.68; 'smith': 0.68; 'low': 0.83; 'subject:Managing': 0.84; 'marketing.': 0.91; 'rusi': 0.91; '2013': 0.98 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: Managing Google Groups headaches Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 17:48:25 +0000 References: <5f370a06-8d2c-4d7d-bc22-b9a489c15c59@googlegroups.com> <834d2e9d-2fb2-4401-82fe-dbe161d6d362@googlegroups.com> <695ec03f-b066-4b72-b1c8-a1b18c5e835b@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-78-147-20-135.as13285.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.1 In-Reply-To: <695ec03f-b066-4b72-b1c8-a1b18c5e835b@googlegroups.com> X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 29 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1386006525 news.xs4all.nl 15913 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:60854 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:60878 On 02/12/2013 17:11, rusi wrote: > On Monday, December 2, 2013 7:34:33 PM UTC+5:30, Neil Cerutti wrote: >> On 2013-12-02, Roy Smith wrote: >>>> The current situation does force a lot of technology-focused >>>> people, progammers in particular, into a low opinion of Google. >>>> The crappy usenet portal is poor marketing. >>> >>> If you think, "The set of people who are still trying to use >>> usenet groups for anything serious" is a lot of people, you >>> don't understand the scale on which Google operates. >> >> It's probably hard to even visualize. > > I was dreaming about in an alternate surreal world… > And now you guys have crashed me back to planet-earth-2013 > > !MEAN! > żAs this is an international group why not ˇMEAN!? :) Quickly runs off to hide... -- Python is the second best programming language in the world. But the best has yet to be invented. Christian Tismer Mark Lawrence