On 2008-04-16, Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> My workplace doesn't offer NNTP, so there is no good way to browse >> c.l.py here.
Browse it via the mailing list using gmane.org. There are no ads and your postings won't get plonked by everybody. >> And I haven't been able to get NNTP to work from my home >> either. > > I rarely use NNTP these days. I access c.l.py exclusively via > e-mail, and that works very well. In some cases there is a > lot of spam that gets filtered out of the nntp side, but makes > it through to the smtp side (like that religious spam a few > months back). But I see absolutely none of the google groups > problems that Grant mentioned. I view my python list mail in > gmail, and get about 1-2 spam messages a day in the python > list. > > This official python list is one of the few lists that's even > still on nntp. All my other ones (gnome, gtk, openldap, > clamav, freeradius, etc) are all e-mail mailing lists only and > it works very well. In fact, I think it's much better since > list subscription can actually be controlled by someone. Since gmane.org makes all the e-mail lists I care about available via NNTP, I can still use a news client to read "e-mail mailing lists only". I've always found that news clients are much better at handling things like mailing lists than e-mail clients. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Quick, sing me the at BUDAPEST NATIONAL ANTHEM!! visi.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list