I've got mine delivered to a gmail account. For me, it was much easier than trying to find a NNTP host that would allow me to check remotely (many ISP's don't). Set up a filter so that everything that comes in from the list is marked "Python". Star anything that looks promising, delete the rest.
I've yet to use more than 6% of the total allowed space. Abe Mathews On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 19:52:10 -0500, Francis Lavoie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Egor Bolonev wrote: > > > On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 14:57:50 -0500, Francis Lavoie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > >> Do we need a special account or something to use the newsgroup > >> instead of the mailling list? > > > > > > why we use newsgroup instead of mailing list? > > 1. to keep my mail separated from the python discussion. > And this mailinglist/newsgroup is quite big, 150 messages a day, is > a lot of mail to go trough. > It is easier to delete all mail without deleting my own one when I > want to. Sometime there's subject I dont have answer or dont interest > me. Othertime I'm tired or I didn't check my mail for a couple of day > and it has become huge. > 2. Better and faster search. Has I said, I dont want to keep all these > mail in my mail box > 3. I don't want to be notice 2 time per minute for mail. I prefer using > it like a forum > > > > >Yes, you have to find an NNTP server that carries comp.lang.python. > It's possible your Internet service provider runs such a news server and > will let you access it as a part of your subscription (this is the case > for me). If not then you'll have to contract with a third party news > service (some of htese are available for free). > > >Alternatively, take a look at http://www.gmane.com/, a mailing > list/newsgroup interface service which I believe offers an NNTP service. > >regards > > Steve > > thank you, I was not well informed on how it does work. I though it was > like a mailinglist or jabber like, just add it in your news section and > it will connect directly on a news server. But it work now. > > > > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list