On Friday, February 9, 2018 at 2:48:17 PM UTC-5, Chris Green wrote: > codew...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Saturday, February 3, 2018 at 7:15:16 PM UTC-5, pyotr filipivich wrote: > > > [snip] > > > Those of us who do not use google-groups may not notice the loss > > > of the google groupies. > > > > I use GG to read comp.lang.python because of the following combination > > of factors. I would definitely be happier if there was another way to > > do this, so that I wouldn't have to wade through lots of spam. > > > > - I read it from both home and work. > > > > - I can't install any additional software at work. > > > > - There is no newsgroup reader software available at work. > > > > - GG tracks read/unread status of every post. This is shared > > between work and home through my Google account. > > > > - When I (very rarely) post from work, I can't > > do it by email, since outgoing email is blocked. > > > Alternative approach, what I do:- > > Run a text mode (but very capable and mouse aware) newsreader on > my home system, read news locally using that. > > Use ssh (is that available at worK?) to connect from work to home > and run the same newsreader in the same environment. If you can't > even ssh from work then you can always use an 'ssh from the web' > app from your wenb browser. > > The newsreader I use is tin by the way. > > -- > Chris Green > ยท
ssh would be even a bigger problem here. As I mentioned, I can't even email from work to the outside! All web sites that provide remote connectivity tools are blocked. Regards, Igor. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list