On Sun, 17 Mar 2013 19:14:49 -0700, Yves S. Garret wrote: > I don't get why it's posting what I said twice...
Because you are emailing to the list, and CCing the list. In your email, you have: To: comp.lang.pyt...@googlegroups.com Cc: python-list@python.org Unfortunately, they are the same thing. Or rather, when Google Groups receives its copy of the email, it then "helpfully" sends another copy to python-list@python.org even though you have already CCed it. In defence of Google Groups, it's not *quite* as stupid as it appears, because it's not actually forwarding directly to the same email address. It is actually forwarding to the newsgroup comp.lang.python, which is an alias to python-list@python.org. Confused? Don't be. It is very simple: there are at least three ways to post to this group: 1) Email to python-list@python.org 2) Post to the news group comp.lang.python on Usenet 3) Email to comp.lang.pyt...@googlegroups.com There are others as well. Think of them as all aliases to the same discussion forum. Whichever you choose, choose ONE ONLY. You are using two, hence there are two copies of your message. I recommend that you choose 1) or 2) rather than Google Groups, if possible. There are two problems with Google Groups: - it is not very smart, and often mangles messages so that every line is separated by a blank line (although I see you have avoided that, at least so far!); - also, we get a lot of spam and junk advertising coming from Google Groups, and so in self-defence many people here have an automatic filter that junks anything from Google Groups unread. If you are unable or unwilling to avoid Google Groups, we will still answer your questions, but keep in mind that many of the regulars here will not directly see your posts, but only replies to them. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
