On Tuesday, November 21, 2017 at 5:27:42 PM UTC+5:30, Ned Batchelder wrote: > On 11/20/17 9:50 AM, Stefan Ram wrote: > > Ned Batchelder writes: > >> Also, why set headers that prevent the Python-List mailing list from > >> archiving your messages? > > I am posting to a Usenet newsgroup. I am not aware of any > > "Python-List mailing list". > > > > I am posting specifically to the Usenet, because I am aware > > of it's rules and I like it and wish to support it. > > > > I do not post to a "mailing list" because I do not know which > > rules apply for mailing lists and whether mailing lists in > > general or any specific mailing list is an environment that I > > like or wish to support. > > > > The dual nature of this online community has long been confusing and > complicated. It's both a newsgroup and a mailing list. Add in Google > Groups, and you really have three different faces of the same content. > > The fact is, posting to comp.lang.python means that your words are also > being distributed as a mailing list. Because of your messages' headers, > they are not in the archive of that list > (https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2017-November/thread.html), > or in Google Groups > (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.python/0ejrtZ6ET9g). > It makes for odd reading via those channels. > > I don't understand the motivation for limiting how words are > distributed, but others on this list also do it. For example, Dennis Lee > Bieber's messages are not in the Python-List archives either. If > something is worth saying, why not let people find it later?
To which I would add: Setting headers is hardly a working method. Somebody quotes Stefan or Dennis and they are on the archives And some quote including emails some not etc -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
