On Friday, November 29, 2013 12:07:29 AM UTC+5:30, rusi wrote: > On Thursday, November 28, 2013 11:59:13 PM UTC+5:30, Michael Torrie wrote: > > On 11/28/2013 10:23 AM, Ned Batchelder wrote: > > > Funny, I thought the sentiment of many here was, "let's just keep this > > > as a newsgroup, why do we need the mailing list also?" but I'll admit to > > > being confused about what people have been proposing for alternate > > > topologies. > > > > That may well be the majority sentiment here. I only state my opinion. > > > > Seems like 90% of the problems on this list come from the unchecked > > usenet side of things. Such as trolls or spam. For example a certain > > iron-skulled person who posted his whining rants and threats from half a > > dozen different addresses to the annoyance of all. Despite many calls > > to banish him from the list for his blatant disregard for list > > etiquette, with usenet it's just not possible. Although I'm sure some > > would argue that's a good thing to be unable to kick offenders off the list. > > Do you realize that that person was not using GG? > > IOW we are unfortunately conflating two completely unrelated things: > 1. GG has some technical problems which are fairly easy to solve > 2. All kinds of people hop onto the list. In addition to genuine ones there > are > spammers, trolls, dicks, nuts, philosophers, help-vampires etc etc.
To add to that: 1. In this thread itself there is a quadruple-post 2. In an adjacent thread there is the mess due to html mail 3. Sometime ago there was a long argument around the old and unsettled: Reply vs Reply-all debate All these are due to NON use of GG. Does that mean everyone should use GG? Heck no! Just this: Technology will occasionally have problems and these can usually be solved technically. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
