[ Grant Edwards Wrote On Fri 30.Nov'12 at 18:20:00 GMT ] > On 2012-11-30, Jim Graham <spooky1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 09:57:50AM -0500, Mark H. Wood wrote: > > > >> I don't think it was about sending mail through a .gmail address; it > >> was about using the GMail web thingy to compose the mail being sent, > > > > People actually USE that POS!? > > Definitely. > > Most of them have absolutely no clue that there's any other way to > access what the believe are forums run by Google -- but which in > reality are Usenet news groups or mailing lists host by various > non-Google sites. > > > The e-mail lists (now only one left) that I've created all have/had > > the web page UI disabled. Nobody complained. > > The main Python mailing list gets regular posts from Google Groups. > Those posts are always malformatted (the formatting seems to change > over the years, but it never actually gets better). The ones that > aren't just spam are always very badly written and rarely contain > enough information to even guess what the poster is asking, let alone > formulate a useful answer. Attempts to pry useful information from > the poster usually prove fruitless. > > I killfiled all postings from google groups years ago...
Not to mention the double posting and breaking the threads
