On 07/21/2012 08:13 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 06:48:29 -0400, Dave Angel wrote: > >> Has anybody else noticed the sudden double-posting of nearly all >> messages in the python mailing list? > No I have not. > > It sounds like a problem with your Usenet provider. Remember that this > news group is a mirror of the mailing list python-list@python.org so you > can check the mail archives to see if the problem is there. It is also > mirrored by gmane (I *think* it is gmane.comp.python.general). >
I don't have a usenet provider, I use the straight email, collected as regular email, by Thunderbird. I thought for a while that perhaps my imap provider had hiccupped, and just reloaded all the same messages. But it happened in several sessions, and for the messages I checked, the emails were *NOT* identical. >> Previously, I've seen some messages double posted, and it was nearly >> always a newbie, presumably posting via some low-end gateway. > Some people also annoyingly send to both the newsgroup *and* the mailing > list, not realising -- or not caring -- that they are the same thing. > > > That may be because many other messages (including this one from you) list the newsgroup in the headers, so a reply-all generates it as one of the recipients. The only reason I don't fall into that trap is that I have Thunderbird configured to *not* send to any newsgroup. -- DaveA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
