On 14/09/11 21:00, Duncan Booth wrote: > Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > >> In article <Xns9F605E618E6B1duncanbooth@127.0.0.1>, >> Duncan Booth <duncan.booth@invalid.invalid> wrote: >> >>> If you want an answer to how to get a specific bit of code to work then >>> Stackoverflow is better if only because people can see who has already >>> answered so don't need to waste time re-answering every trivial little >>> question about syntax. >> >> Any halfway decent newsreader application will follow threading and put >> all the responses to a given question in one place. Of course, this is >> a relatively new feature. If your newsreader is any older than about >> the mid 1980's, it may not be able to do this. >> > Sorry, I evidently didn't make myself clear. On Usenet it could be hours > before your local server updates with other posts on the thread, on > Stackoverflow the answers will update live as they are posted.
The mailing list python-list, however, doesn't have this problem. (unless when people post from slow USENET servers of course...) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list