kj <no.em...@please.post> wrote: > In <87wryumvff....@benfinney.id.au> Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> > writes: > > >kj <no.em...@please.post> writes: > > >> (my replies in a different comp.lang.python thread are getting > >> rejected by the server; i have no problem posting to alt.test; and > >> i'm trying to toubleshoot the problem further.) > > >Thank you for this explanation. It is important to know that you've > >tried the less obtrusive diagnostics first. Good hunting. > > I figured out the immediate reason for the failure: when replying > to *certain posts*, my newsreader omits the Newsgroups header from > the response. Why it does this is still a mystery to me, but at > least now I know what to look out for. Then again, I use the > "venerable" (i.e. decrepit) nn as newsreader, so this discovery > probably won't help many of those reading this...
I used to use nn, now I use tin which is fairly similar and still being maintained. -- Chris Green -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list