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Re: Is it a newsgroup or a list?

Date 2015-06-07 14:57 +0100
From Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk>
Subject Re: Is it a newsgroup or a list?
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On 07/06/2015 12:20, random832@fastmail.us wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 7, 2015, at 05:06, Luca Menegotto wrote:
>> Il 07/06/2015 10:22, Cecil Westerhof ha scritto:
>>   > That only times the function. I explicitly mentioned I want both the
>>   > needed time AND the output.
>>   >
>>   > Sadly the quality of the answers on this list is going down....
>>
>> First of all, thank God it's a newsgroup, not a list.
> ...
>> --
>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>
> I've always thought of this as a list that is mirrored to a newsgroup,
> not a newsgroup that is mirrored to a list. What is the true nature of
> python-list (and others such as python-ideas)? What is it primarily,
> what was it first, etc?
>

It's both: they're mirrored to each other and I consider both to be 
first class citizens. In strict chronology I believe comp.lang.python 
existed first, but python-list has been around for long enough that the 
distinction now is really quite academic.

I would not be surprised to find that a fair majority of people told off 
on this list for abusing newsgroup etiquette in one way or another not 
only have no idea that this is (also) a newsgroup but don't even know 
what a newsgroup *is*.

They may also not know that it's a mailing list, nor what that is, 
because they're coming via Google Groups -- which uses the Usenet 
gateway -- or through gmane -- which comes in through the mailing list 
-- or some other web mirror.


TJG

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Function to show time to execute another function Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-07 08:39 +0200
  Re: Function to show time to execute another function Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-06-07 08:39 +0100
    Re: Function to show time to execute another function Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-07 10:22 +0200
      Re: Function to show time to execute another function Luca Menegotto <otlucaDELETE@DELETEyahoo.it> - 2015-06-07 11:06 +0200
        Is it a newsgroup or a list? random832@fastmail.us - 2015-06-07 07:20 -0400
          Re: Is it a newsgroup or a list? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-06-07 21:45 +1000
            Re: Is it a newsgroup or a list? Chris Warrick <kwpolska@gmail.com> - 2015-06-07 15:10 +0200
            Re: Is it a newsgroup or a list? Luca Menegotto <otlucaDELETE@DELETEyahoo.it> - 2015-06-07 16:12 +0200
        Re: Function to show time to execute another function Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-07 13:53 +0200
        Re: Is it a newsgroup or a list? Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2015-06-07 14:57 +0100
      Re: Function to show time to execute another function Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-06-07 11:16 +0100
        [OT] Re: Function to show time to execute another function Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-06-07 14:02 +0300
          Re: [OT] Re: Function to show time to execute another function Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-06-07 12:12 +0100
        Re: Function to show time to execute another function Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-06-07 21:29 +1000
        Re: Function to show time to execute another function Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-07 14:03 +0200
      Re: Function to show time to execute another function Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2015-06-07 12:05 +0100
        Re: Function to show time to execute another function Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-07 14:43 +0200
      Re: Function to show time to execute another function Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-06-07 15:03 +0200
      Re: Function to show time to execute another function Johannes Bauer <dfnsonfsduifb@gmx.de> - 2015-06-07 20:51 +0200
        Re: Function to show time to execute another function Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-07 22:35 +0200
          Re: Function to show time to execute another function Johannes Bauer <dfnsonfsduifb@gmx.de> - 2015-06-08 07:04 +0200
            Re: Function to show time to execute another function Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-08 08:32 +0200
  Re: Function to show time to execute another function Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-06-07 19:28 +1000
    Re: Function to show time to execute another function Luca Menegotto <otlucaDELETE@DELETEyahoo.it> - 2015-06-07 11:44 +0200
    Re: Function to show time to execute another function Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-07 14:14 +0200
    Re: Function to show time to execute another function Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-07 14:58 +0200
  Re: Function to show time to execute another function Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-06-07 19:51 +1000
    Re: Function to show time to execute another function Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-07 14:27 +0200
  Re: Function to show time to execute another function Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-07 11:31 +0200
  Re: Is it a newsgroup or a list? Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2015-06-07 11:49 -0400
  Re: Is it a newsgroup or a list? Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2015-06-07 11:56 -0400

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