In <87wryumvff....@benfinney.id.au> Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> writes:
>kj <no.em...@please.post> writes: >> (my replies in a different comp.lang.python thread are getting >> rejected by the server; i have no problem posting to alt.test; and >> i'm trying to toubleshoot the problem further.) >Thank you for this explanation. It is important to know that you've >tried the less obtrusive diagnostics first. Good hunting. I figured out the immediate reason for the failure: when replying to *certain posts*, my newsreader omits the Newsgroups header from the response. Why it does this is still a mystery to me, but at least now I know what to look out for. Then again, I use the "venerable" (i.e. decrepit) nn as newsreader, so this discovery probably won't help many of those reading this... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list