On 11/13/2012 09:10 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Caroline Hou wrote: >> Thank you Dave and everybody here for your helpful comments!This >> place is awesome! I found this group when I googled python-list. >> Seems like this is not the usual way you guys access the list? > > There are several ways to communicate with this list. > [...] > * Use a news-to-web gateway such as Google Groups. That > specific one is deprecated on this list, as there's more > noise than signal from Google Groups.
Caroline, Chris is mistaken about this, if for no other reason than there is no authority here empowered to decide to deprecate anything. What Chris should have said is that there are some people on this list who don't like Google Groups for whatever reason and encourage others to ignore posts from Google Groups. How successful this boycott effort is is not clear. I use Google Groups as it suits my needs better than any of the alternatives, and so do many others. Both of the other alternatives Chris mentioned involve too much setup or overhead for those who read/post here only occasionally. GG fills this niche adequately if used with care. If you do use Google Groups to post, there are a couple of things you should be careful of: * You'll sometimes see a checkbox above the GG send window that is a CC to the python mailing list (<pytho...@python.org>) which is checked by default. Uncheck that before sending, or the list will get two copies of your message. * GG doesn't do a very good job in quoting the post you are replying to. If you look at your recent post here: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2012-November/635070.html (or on GG) you will see lots and lots of lines empty save for the ">" quote markers. This makes a post hard to read. A way to avoid this is to remove the blank extra blank lines in the GG send window by hand before posting. Alternatively, many email programs have a "paste as quotation" option when writing mail. What I do is to open a blank new email message, copy the original post I'm replying to from GG, paste-as-quotation into the new mail window, then copy and paste back into the GG send window. Pretty easy to do once you get used to it. Hope this helps and provides a little more accurate info about posting from GG than has been provided so far. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
