On Friday, February 9, 2018 at 5:03:45 PM UTC-5, Richard Damon wrote: > On 2/9/18 4:12 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 8:05 AM, <codew...@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 > > If he can browse, he can get E-Mail with Gmail/Yahoo/AOL/etc, his normal > mail ISP likely even supports some form of Web Mail Client. > > If they are blocking these, but not Google Groups, there is a major > disconnect in the rules. > > -- > Richard Damon
Disconnect or not, I can browse GG and post replies (e.g., this one). I have no access to gmail or any other email provider. Regards, Igor. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
