On 12/15/2016 6:23 AM, skybuck2...@hotmail.com wrote:
Anyway... my ISP has problems accessing their newsserver. ...
If you want to read python-list as a news group, you might try news.gmane.org. About once a year, it goes down for a few hours to a day, but has otherwise been dependable. I found it when my ISP dropped newsgroup access around a decade ago.
-- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list