Re: Meta question: disappearing posts (was Re: calculating a self.value, self.randomnum = normalvariate(x, y))

2009-06-24 Thread Ross Ridge
Ross Ridge wrote: >I'm not sure what MIME would have to do with it, but Piet van Oostrum's >problem is almost certainly as result of the python.org mail to news >gateway mangling the References header. The missing postings he's looking >for don't actually exist. Just go up the thread one more p

Re: Meta question: disappearing posts (was Re: calculating a self.value, self.randomnum = normalvariate(x, y))

2009-06-23 Thread Aahz
In article , Ross Ridge wrote: >Aahz wrote: >>Piet van Oostrum wrote: >>> I notice that I see several postings on news:comp.lang.python that are >>>replies to other postings that I don't see. >> >>As stated previously, my suspicion is that at least some is caused by a >>problem with MIME

Re: Meta question: disappearing posts (was Re: calculating a self.value, self.randomnum = normalvariate(x, y))

2009-06-22 Thread Ross Ridge
Piet van Oostrum wrote: >I notice that I see several postings on news:comp.lang.python that are >replies to other postings that I don't see. Aahz wrote: >As stated previously, my suspicion is that at least some is caused by a >problem with MIME messages and the mail->news gateway on python.org

Re: Meta question: disappearing posts (was Re: calculating a self.value, self.randomnum = normalvariate(x, y))

2009-06-21 Thread Aahz
In article , Piet van Oostrum wrote: > >I notice that I see several postings on news:comp.lang.python that are >replies to other postings that I don't see. As stated previously, my suspicion is that at least some is caused by a problem with MIME messages and the mail->news gateway on python.org

Re: Meta question: disappearing posts (was Re: calculating a self.value, self.randomnum = normalvariate(x, y))

2009-06-21 Thread greg
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: unless one is reading from a server that interprets X-no-archive to mean "delete before reading". Can't be too careful with security. Destroy it, memorize it and then read it! -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Meta question: disappearing posts (was Re: calculating a self.value, self.randomnum = normalvariate(x, y))

2009-06-21 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Piet van Oostrum wrote: > I notice that I see several postings on news:comp.lang.python that are > replies to other postings that I don't see. I see the same problem. I suspect it's because of over-vigorous spam filtering from Usenet providers. Some even block everything from anyone using Google

Re: Meta question: disappearing posts (was Re: calculating a self.value, self.randomnum = normalvariate(x, y))

2009-06-21 Thread Terry Reedy
Piet van Oostrum wrote: I notice that I see several postings on news:comp.lang.python that are replies to other postings that I don't see. Examples are the postings by Dennis Lee Bieber that I am replying to (but I break the thread on purpose). For example the posting with Message-ID: reference

Re: Meta question: disappearing posts (was Re: calculating a self.value, self.randomnum = normalvariate(x, y))

2009-06-21 Thread Chris Rebert
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 5:25 AM, Piet van Oostrum wrote: > I notice that I see several postings on news:comp.lang.python that are > replies to other postings that I don't see. Examples are the postings by > Dennis Lee Bieber that I am replying to (but I As addressed in an earlier thread, Mr. Bieb

Meta question: disappearing posts (was Re: calculating a self.value, self.randomnum = normalvariate(x, y))

2009-06-21 Thread Piet van Oostrum
I notice that I see several postings on news:comp.lang.python that are replies to other postings that I don't see. Examples are the postings by Dennis Lee Bieber that I am replying to (but I break the thread on purpose). For example the posting with Message-ID: references: <77e831100906192220y553