Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-05-02 Thread George Sakkis
On May 2, 4:49 pm, Mensanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 2, 2:57 pm, George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On May 2, 1:18 pm, Mensanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On May 2, 9:53 am, Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Shawn Milochik wrote: > > > > > Ho

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-05-02 Thread Mensanator
On May 2, 2:57 pm, George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 2, 1:18 pm, Mensanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On May 2, 9:53 am, Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Shawn Milochik wrote: > > > > How does one "plonk" stuff from Google Groups? Specifically, how > > > > ca

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-05-02 Thread Mensanator
On May 2, 2:26 pm, Arnaud Delobelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mensanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On May 2, 1:20 pm, Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Mensanator wrote: > >> > On May 2, 9:53 am, Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> Shawn Milochik wrote: > >> >>>

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-05-02 Thread George Sakkis
On May 2, 1:18 pm, Mensanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 2, 9:53 am, Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Shawn Milochik wrote: > > > How does one "plonk" stuff from Google Groups? Specifically, how > > > can this be done in Gmail? > > > Set up a filter that looks for some phras

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-05-02 Thread Arnaud Delobelle
Mensanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On May 2, 1:20 pm, Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Mensanator wrote: >> > On May 2, 9:53 am, Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Shawn Milochik wrote: >> >>> How does one "plonk" stuff from Google Groups? Specifically, how >> >>> ca

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-05-02 Thread Mensanator
On May 2, 1:20 pm, Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mensanator wrote: > > On May 2, 9:53 am, Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Shawn Milochik wrote: > >>> How does one "plonk" stuff from Google Groups? Specifically, how > >>> can this be done in Gmail? > >> Set up a filter t

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-05-02 Thread Michael Torrie
Mensanator wrote: > On May 2, 9:53 am, Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Shawn Milochik wrote: >>> How does one "plonk" stuff from Google Groups? Specifically, how >>> can this be done in Gmail? >> Set up a filter that looks for some phrase in the mail headers that >> identifies messages

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-05-02 Thread Mensanator
On May 2, 9:53 am, Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shawn Milochik wrote: > > How does one "plonk" stuff from Google Groups? Specifically, how > > can this be done in Gmail? > > Set up a filter that looks for some phrase in the mail headers that > identifies messages originating from goo

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-05-02 Thread Michael Torrie
Shawn Milochik wrote: > How does one "plonk" stuff from Google Groups? Specifically, how > can this be done in Gmail? Set up a filter that looks for some phrase in the mail headers that identifies messages originating from google groups. Gmail's filters are fairly flexible. I'd probably just hav

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-30 Thread Shawn Milochik
How does one "plonk" stuff from Google Groups? Specifically, how can this be done in Gmail? Thanks, Shawn -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-21 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! NickC writes: > Hmm, according to this thread I probably shouldn't bother even > trying to contribute to c.l.p discussions that are highlighted in > the Python- URL announcements, even in cases where I think a core > developer's perspective may be of interest. As someone that only > po

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-21 Thread NickC
Hmm, according to this thread I probably shouldn't bother even trying to contribute to c.l.p discussions that are highlighted in the Python- URL announcements, even in cases where I think a core developer's perspective may be of interest. As someone that only posts here rarely, and uses Google Grou

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-20 Thread Aahz
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >This morning almost half of c.l.p was spam. In order to try to not tar >both the benign google group users and the malignant ones with the same >brush, I've been trying to kill usenet spam with subject patterns. But >tha

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-20 Thread Aahz
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Driscoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >My workplace doesn't offer NNTP, so there is no good way to browse >c.l.py here. And I haven't been able to get NNTP to work from my home >either. Can you use ssh? Get a shell account somewhere else. -- Aahz ([EMAIL PRO

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-20 Thread Terry Reedy
"Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] En Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:23:57 -0300, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Torsten Bronger wrote: >> The admistrative overhead of mailing lists is tedious. Fortunately, >> most important computer-related list

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-20 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:23:57 -0300, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Torsten Bronger wrote: >> The admistrative overhead of mailing lists is tedious. Fortunately, >> most important computer-related lists are on gmane.org. We could >> list c.l.py there, too. ;-) >> > c.l.py has been

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-17 Thread Michael Torrie
Mike Driscoll wrote: > I'm confused. First you say Gmail is create for filtering and then you > say it has a broken interface. I like Gmail for some things, but my > inability to create folders is one thing that really bugs me. I can > set up Thunderbird to accept mail from Gmail and do it that way

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-04-17, Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:19:37 -0500, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > >> I broke down and joined all the other people that just killfile >> everything posted via google.groups. > > Unfortu

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-04-17, John Salerno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: >> This morning almost half of c.l.p was spam. In order to try to >> not tar both the benign google group users and the malignant >> ones with the same brush, I've been trying to kill usenet spam >> with subject patterns

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread John Salerno
Grant Edwards wrote: > This morning almost half of c.l.p was spam. In order to try to > not tar both the benign google group users and the malignant > ones with the same brush, I've been trying to kill usenet spam > with subject patterns. But that's not a battle you can win, so > I broke down and

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread Kam-Hung Soh
On Apr 17, 1:14 am, Mike Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 16, 10:26 am, Mike Driscoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yeah, I noticed that Google Groups has really sucked this week. I'm > > using the Google Groups Killfile for Greasemonkey now and it helps a > > lot. I like Google, but my

Death of NNTP greatly exaggerated (was: Finally had to plonk google gorups.)

2008-04-16 Thread Ben Finney
Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I rarely use NNTP these days. I access c.l.py exclusively via e-mail, > and that works very well. I rarely use email for technical mailing lists these days. I access such forums exclusively via NNTP nntp://news.gmane.org>, and that works very well. >

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread Michael Torrie
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Mike Driscoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think I like the email list idea all that much. I'm already on > a number of them and they fill up my box like crazy. Besides that, in > email format it's hard to follow the thread, so one moment I'm reading > abo

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread Mensanator
On Apr 16, 1:43 pm, Severian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2008-04-16, Mensanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Apr 16, 9:19 am, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> This morning almost half of c.l.p was spam.  In order to try > >>> to not tar both the beni

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread Severian
Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2008-04-16, Mensanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Apr 16, 9:19 am, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> This morning almost half of c.l.p was spam. In order to try >>> to not tar both the benign google group users and the >>> malignant ones with the same bru

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread lbonafide
On Apr 16, 11:06 am, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not saying people shouldn't use Google Groups. I'm saying that > Google can "justify" providing customer "support" that lives somewhere > between zero and extremely crappy by not charging for the service. It's even worse than that

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-04-16, Mensanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 16, 9:19 am, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> This morning almost half of c.l.p was spam.  In order to try >> to not tar both the benign google group users and the >> malignant ones with the same brush, I've been trying to kil

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread J. Cliff Dyer
On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 10:49 -0700, Mike Driscoll wrote: > On Apr 16, 12:40 pm, "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:23:50 -0700 (PDT) > > > > Mike Driscoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My workplace doesn't offer NNTP, so there is no good way to browse > > > c

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread J. Cliff Dyer
On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 12:06 -0400, Steve Holden wrote: > Mike Driscoll wrote: > > On Apr 16, 10:09 am, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Mike Driscoll wrote: > >>> On Apr 16, 9:19 am, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This morning almost half of c.l.p was spam. In order to

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread Dan Upton
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Mike Driscoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 16, 12:40 pm, "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't think I like the email list idea all that much. I'm already on > a number of them and they fill up my box like crazy. Besides that, in > emai

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! D'Arcy J.M. Cain writes: > On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:11:09 -0700 > "Daniel Fetchinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Full disclosure: I'm using google groups for both reading and >> writing. > > You are? Maybe, but not with this posting. It was sent through the mailing list. By the w

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:39:16 -0600 Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Running a few lists myself, I don't see this. How is administrative > overhead tedious? Most open source projects do it, so I wonder just how > tedious it is. Of all the projects I'm associated with in lists, Python >

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:11:09 -0700 "Daniel Fetchinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Full disclosure: I'm using google groups for both reading and writing. You are? I guess I don't have my filter set correctly then. Can someone please tell me what headers indicate that it is a Google groups posti

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Apr 16, 11:06 am, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Driscoll wrote: > > On Apr 16, 10:09 am, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Mike Driscoll wrote: > >>> On Apr 16, 9:19 am, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This morning almost half of c.l.p was spam. In or

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Apr 16, 12:40 pm, "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:23:50 -0700 (PDT) > > Mike Driscoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My workplace doesn't offer NNTP, so there is no good way to browse > > c.l.py here. And I haven't been able to get NNTP to work from my home

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread Mensanator
On Apr 16, 9:19 am, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This morning almost half of c.l.p was spam.  In order to try to > not tar both the benign google group users and the malignant > ones with the same brush, I've been trying to kill usenet spam > with subject patterns.  But that's not a b

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! Steve Holden writes: > Torsten Bronger wrote: > >> [...] >> >> The admistrative overhead of mailing lists is tedious. >> Fortunately, most important computer-related lists are on >> gmane.org. We could list c.l.py there, too. ;-) > > c.l.py has been on gmane for years, as comp.python

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:23:50 -0700 (PDT) Mike Driscoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My workplace doesn't offer NNTP, so there is no good way to browse > c.l.py here. And I haven't been able to get NNTP to work from my home > either. Hi Mike; I am half way to killing Google groups myself. Your me

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread Steve Holden
Torsten Bronger wrote: > Hallöchen! > > Michael Torrie writes: > >> [...] >> >> This official python list is one of the few lists that's even >> still on nntp. All my other ones (gnome, gtk, openldap, clamav, >> freeradius, etc) are all e-mail mailing lists only and it works >> very well. In fa

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! Michael Torrie writes: > Torsten Bronger wrote: > >> The admistrative overhead of mailing lists is tedious. >> Fortunately, most important computer-related lists are on >> gmane.org. We could list c.l.py there, too. ;-) > > Running a few lists myself, I don't see this. How is > admi

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-04-16, Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> My workplace doesn't offer NNTP, so there is no good way to browse >> c.l.py here. Browse it via the mailing list using gmane.org. There are no ads and your postings won't get plonked by everybody. >> And I haven't been able to get NNT

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread Michael Torrie
Torsten Bronger wrote: > The admistrative overhead of mailing lists is tedious. Fortunately, > most important computer-related lists are on gmane.org. We could > list c.l.py there, too. ;-) Running a few lists myself, I don't see this. How is administrative overhead tedious? Most open source

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! Michael Torrie writes: > [...] > > This official python list is one of the few lists that's even > still on nntp. All my other ones (gnome, gtk, openldap, clamav, > freeradius, etc) are all e-mail mailing lists only and it works > very well. In fact, I think it's much better since li

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread Michael Torrie
Mike Driscoll wrote: > Steve, > > My workplace doesn't offer NNTP, so there is no good way to browse > c.l.py here. And I haven't been able to get NNTP to work from my home > either. I rarely use NNTP these days. I access c.l.py exclusively via e-mail, and that works very well. In some cases th

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> > > On Apr 16, 9:19 am, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> This morning almost half of c.l.p was spam. In order to try to > > >> not tar both the benign google group users and the malignant > > >> ones with the same brush, I've been trying to kill usenet spam > > >> with subject pat

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread Steve Holden
Mike Driscoll wrote: > On Apr 16, 10:09 am, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Mike Driscoll wrote: >>> On Apr 16, 9:19 am, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This morning almost half of c.l.p was spam. In order to try to not tar both the benign google group users and the m

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Apr 16, 10:09 am, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Driscoll wrote: > > On Apr 16, 9:19 am, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> This morning almost half of c.l.p was spam. In order to try to > >> not tar both the benign google group users and the malignant > >> ones with

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread Jon Ribbens
On 2008-04-16, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But that's not a battle you can win, so I broke down and joined all > the other people that just killfile everything posted via google.groups. I did the same about an hour ago. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread Mike Kent
On Apr 16, 10:26 am, Mike Driscoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, I noticed that Google Groups has really sucked this week. I'm > using the Google Groups Killfile for Greasemonkey now and it helps a > lot. I like Google, but my loyalty only goes to far. This is a > complete lack of customer se

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread Steve Holden
Mike Driscoll wrote: > On Apr 16, 9:19 am, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> This morning almost half of c.l.p was spam. In order to try to >> not tar both the benign google group users and the malignant >> ones with the same brush, I've been trying to kill usenet spam >> with subject pa

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Apr 16, 9:19 am, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This morning almost half of c.l.p was spam. In order to try to > not tar both the benign google group users and the malignant > ones with the same brush, I've been trying to kill usenet spam > with subject patterns. But that's not a b

Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread Grant Edwards
This morning almost half of c.l.p was spam. In order to try to not tar both the benign google group users and the malignant ones with the same brush, I've been trying to kill usenet spam with subject patterns. But that's not a battle you can win, so I broke down and joined all the other people th