On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 8:05 AM, <codewiz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Friday, February 9, 2018 at 2:48:17 PM UTC-5, Chris Green wrote: >> codew...@gmail.com wrote: >> > On Saturday, February 3, 2018 at 7:15:16 PM UTC-5, pyotr filipivich wrote: >> > > [snip] >> > > Those of us who do not use google-groups may not notice the loss >> > > of the google groupies. >> > >> > I use GG to read comp.lang.python because of the following combination >> > of factors. I would definitely be happier if there was another way to >> > do this, so that I wouldn't have to wade through lots of spam. >> > >> > - I read it from both home and work. >> > >> > - I can't install any additional software at work. >> > >> > - There is no newsgroup reader software available at work. >> > >> > - GG tracks read/unread status of every post. This is shared >> > between work and home through my Google account. >> > >> > - When I (very rarely) post from work, I can't >> > do it by email, since outgoing email is blocked. >> > >> Alternative approach, what I do:- >> >> Run a text mode (but very capable and mouse aware) newsreader on >> my home system, read news locally using that. >> >> Use ssh (is that available at worK?) to connect from work to home >> and run the same newsreader in the same environment. If you can't >> even ssh from work then you can always use an 'ssh from the web' >> app from your wenb browser. >> >> The newsreader I use is tin by the way. >> >> -- >> Chris Green >> ยท > > ssh would be even a bigger problem here. As I mentioned, I can't even email > from work to the outside! All web sites that provide remote connectivity > tools are blocked.
... yet they're okay with you browsing newsgroups? I think you may have a Layer Eight conflict here. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
