On 2023-01-29, Peter J. Holzer <hjp-pyt...@hjp.at> wrote: > On 2023-01-29 02:09:28 -0000, Jon Ribbens via Python-list wrote: >> I'm not aware of any significant period in the last twenty-one years >> that > [the gateway] >> hasn't been working. Although sometimes it does feel like it isn't, in >> that I reply to a post with an answer and then several other people >> reply significantly later with the same answer, as if my one had never >> existed... > > That's just because people don't read before they post. > > Happens in any usenet group or mailing list (and probably in web forums, > too; but I don't really use those). I have to admit that I'm sometimes > guilty of this behaviour, too.
Well, let's just assume for a moment that I'm familiar with Usenet and with mailing lists ;-) This sort of replying-without-reading seems to happen on comp.lang.python/python-list more than usual. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
