[Python-ideas] Re: Archiving Threads / Closing Threads

2019-12-04 Thread Christopher Barker
On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 4:47 AM Rhodri James wrote: > Sorry, but that's true of any conversation. If you want information out > of a thread, you are going to have to put in the work of reading and > comprehending it. The only way around that is to get a technical PA to > read and comprehend it

[Python-ideas] Re: Archiving Threads / Closing Threads

2019-12-04 Thread Ethan Furman
On 12/04/2019 04:44 AM, Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer wrote: An advantage. If the topic goes round several times, the mods closing the topic freezes the thread so that the thread does not gets filled with unnecessary details. By the time the topic has gone around several times, it is already

[Python-ideas] Re: Archiving Threads / Closing Threads

2019-12-04 Thread Rhodri James
On 04/12/2019 12:44, Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer wrote: Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer http://www.pythonmembers.club | https://github.com/Abdur-rahmaanJ Mauritius On Wed, 4 Dec 2019, 15:16 Rhodri James, wrote: Which is a problem because...? -- Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd An advantage. If the

[Python-ideas] Re: Archiving Threads / Closing Threads

2019-12-04 Thread Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer
Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer http://www.pythonmembers.club | https://github.com/Abdur-rahmaanJ Mauritius On Wed, 4 Dec 2019, 15:16 Rhodri James, wrote: > > Which is a problem because...? > > -- > Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd > An advantage. If the topic goes round several times, the mods closing

[Python-ideas] Re: Archiving Threads / Closing Threads

2019-12-04 Thread Rhodri James
On 04/12/2019 03:50, Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer wrote: Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer http://www.pythonmembers.club | https://github.com/Abdur-rahmaanJ Mauritius On Wed, 4 Dec 2019, 07:38 Steven D'Aprano, wrote: What problem are you trying to solve? Are we suffering under a burden of pople

[Python-ideas] Re: Archiving Threads / Closing Threads

2019-12-03 Thread Andrew Barnert via Python-ideas
On Dec 3, 2019, at 19:39, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > I wish people *would* resurrect old threads, rather than just start a > new thread covering the same old ground. At least that way there is a > chance that they may have read the previous correspondence. I agree. And if it were a lot easier

[Python-ideas] Re: Archiving Threads / Closing Threads

2019-12-03 Thread Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer
Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer http://www.pythonmembers.club | https://github.com/Abdur-rahmaanJ Mauritius On Wed, 4 Dec 2019, 07:38 Steven D'Aprano, wrote: > What problem are you trying to solve? Are we suffering under a burden of > pople resurrecting old threads from ten years ago, or even a year

[Python-ideas] Re: Archiving Threads / Closing Threads

2019-12-03 Thread Jan Bakuwel
Hi Abdur-Rahmaan, On 4/12/19 8:14 am, Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer wrote: I suggest we find a way to close a mail thread. Obviously we can't stop people from sending mails,  but, like when a mod sees the topic has been juiced out, he closes the topic which practically means: if mailman sees

[Python-ideas] Re: Archiving Threads / Closing Threads

2019-12-03 Thread Andrew Barnert via Python-ideas
On Dec 3, 2019, at 11:17, Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer wrote: > > I suggest we find a way to close a mail thread. Obviously we can't stop > people from sending mails, but, like when a mod sees the topic has been > juiced out, he closes the topic This does already happen, if only by human

[Python-ideas] Re: Archiving Threads / Closing Threads

2019-12-03 Thread Wes Turner
https://discuss.python.org is an instance of Discourse, which, like mailman, is also open source. https://github.com/discourse/discourse https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-moderation-guide/63116 https://gitlab.com/mailman/mailman I agree that Broken thread reply chains would be the likely

[Python-ideas] Re: Archiving Threads / Closing Threads

2019-12-03 Thread Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer
Ok posted it with the idea than mailman operated on python and the mods were hackers enough to add functionalities. Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer http://www.pythonmembers.club | https://github.com/Abdur-rahmaanJ Mauritius ___ Python-ideas mailing list --

[Python-ideas] Re: Archiving Threads / Closing Threads

2019-12-03 Thread Paul Moore
On Tue, 3 Dec 2019 at 19:52, Richard Damon wrote: > > Mailman, the manager for the mailing list doesn’t offer any such option. The > closest that could be done is if a topic just goes on too long, a filter > could be added to the list configuration which holds for moderation messages > which

[Python-ideas] Re: Archiving Threads / Closing Threads

2019-12-03 Thread Richard Damon
Mailman, the manager for the mailing list doesn’t offer any such option. The closest that could be done is if a topic just goes on too long, a filter could be added to the list configuration which holds for moderation messages which match the subject. The problem is that if someone changes the