On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > "Alf P. Steinbach" <al...@start.no> writes: > >> And considering this, and the fact that Google's archive is now the >> main Usenet archive, message id's are not that useful, really. > > You've demonstrated only that Google is an unreliable Usenet archive. > > One doesn't even need to use Usenet, in this case, since > comp.lang.python is a forum distributed both as a Usenet forum and a > mailing-list forum. > > -- > \ “Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe | > `\ or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” —Arthur C. Clarke, | > _o__) 1999 | > Ben Finney > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > The archive at http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/ doesn't show the message id either. However, the monthly gzip'ed text file does have them.
FWIW, for you google-haters, I read python-list using gmail and I don't see any message id's. Great spam detection though. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
