Mark Lawrence wrote: > Gabriel Genellina wrote: >> En Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:29:12 -0300, Arnaud Delobelle >> <arno...@googlemail.com> escribió: >> >>> I posted an example of a decorator that does just this in this thread a >>> couple of days ago: >>> >>> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2010-February/1235742.html >> >> Ouch! I didn't see your post, nor several other earlier posts in this >> thread. In fact, I thought mine was the *first* reply when I wrote it! > > It's not just me then. I'm using Thunderbird on Windows Vista to view > the group via gmane, and notice the earlier parts of a thread can show > up hours or even days after the later ones. Would something who > understands these things be kind enough to explain why this happens, or > at least provide the keywords needed for google, as I haven't got a clue > where to start. > There are two main channels feeding the comp.lang.python newsgroup. Gmane is primarily a news (NNTP-based) service, though for reasons best know to the organizers they choose to rename the standard newsgroups to fit their own idea of how the universe should be organized, so there the group becomes gmane.comp.python.general.
The first feed is the general interchange of articles between NNTP servers: while this is usually a reliable interchange mechanism, an individual server can "glitch" occasionally (by losing network connectivity, for example, or when some part of its news support mechanism breaks temporarily). The second is the python-list mailing list, maintained as a part of the python.org infrastructure (by a hard-working team of volunteers, I should add, who get little enough credit for the sterling work they do day in day out to keep the real information flowing and the spam out). More recently the waters have been muddied by Google Groups, which sadly seems at time to be so badly managed (or simply not managed?) as to make it a principal source of spam. This surprises me, as Gmail appears to have very effective spam filtering. Many people appear to use Google Groups as their primary interface to newsgroups and/or mailing lists to the extent that they believe the Groups interface to be what everyone uses to access the list. The task of maintaining a two-way bridge between the comp.lang.python NNTP community and the python-list email community while filtering out the spam and ensuring that posts aren't duplicated too often is a difficult one. For example, I hit "reply all" to your message, and had I not trimmed the headers my NNTP client (Thunderbird) would have sent copies to you, to the mailing list AND to the newsgroup. Sometimes such messages do appear twice, particularly (in my experience) to recipients who use the email channel. In short, these things happen because life is complicated and the technical solutions available to disambiguate the feeds aren't perfect. So you might consider filing the glitches under "shit happens". Speaking personally I wouldn't have a clue how to keep this stuff going on a daily basis at the volume level we see on this group, and I am very grateful to everyone who does. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 PyCon is coming! Atlanta, Feb 2010 http://us.pycon.org/ Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ UPCOMING EVENTS: http://holdenweb.eventbrite.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
