On Apr 30, 8:20 am, Frank Millman <fr...@chagford.com> wrote: > Hi all > > For a while now I have been using Google Groups to read this group, but on > the odd occasion when I want to post a message, I use Outlook Express, as I > know that some people reject all messages from Google Groups due to the high > spam ratio (which seems to have improved recently, BTW). > > From time to time I see a thread where the original post is missing, but the > follow-ups do appear. My own posts have shown up with no problem. > > Now, in the last month, I have posted two messages using Outlook Express, and > neither of them have shown up in Google Groups. I can see replies in OE, so > they are being accepted. I send to the group gmane.comp.python.general. > > Does anyone know a reason for this, or have a solution? > > Frank Millman
Thanks for the replies. I am also coming to the conclusion that Google Groups is no longer fit-for-purpose. Ironically, here are two replies that I can see in Outlook Express, but do not appear in Google Groups. Reply from Benjamin Kaplan - > I believe the mail-to-news gateway has trouble with HTML messages. Try > sending everything as plain text and see if that works. I checked, and all my posts were sent in plain text. Reply from Terry Reedy - > Read and post through news.gmane.org I have had a look at this before, but there is one thing that Google Groups does that no other reader seems to do, and that is that messages are sorted according to thread-activity, not original posting date. This makes it easy to see what has changed since the last time I checked. All the other ones I have looked at - Outlook Express, Thunderbird, and gmane.org, sort by original posting date, so I have to go backwards to see if any threads have had any new postings. Maybe there is a setting that I am not aware of. Can anyone enlighten me? Thanks Frank -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
