In article <7f014ea60910130325n34156771r7f79eed588eaa...@mail.gmail.com>, Chris Colbert <sccolb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Heh, for whatever reason, your post is dated earlier than my response, > but wasn't here when I sent mine. [...] It's not always obvious but this "forum" is multiplexed in several places. It's available as a Usenet newsgroup (comp.lang.python), as a mailing list from python.org (http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list), as a Google group, and in various formats from consolidators like gmane.org (http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.general). All of those "channels" are bi-directional so there are often latency delays while a reply from one channel pushes its way upstream and back out to the various other channels. Sometimes those latencies are really long when one channel gets a little slow. So, if a fast moving thread, replies will often cross in the pipeline, adding another level of confusion ("Didn't they read first before posting??"). It's sort of amazing that it all works as well as it does. -- Ned Deily, n...@acm.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
