On Friday, February 9, 2018 at 6:45:18 PM UTC-5, Richard Damon wrote: > On 2/9/18 6:19 PM, codew...@gmail.com wrote: > > 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. > > My guess then is that your access to google groups is also against your > companies policies, they just haven't put an enforcement in their > firewalls because it is too obscure for the IT department to have > thought of. > > Based on the sort of broad blocking they are doing, I am a bit surprised > they seem to be black listing rather than white listing the web. > > -- > Richard Damon
Regardless of what the policies are and how well they're enforced, if the mailing list is cut off from GG, I will stop reading it. Probably not a big loss to anyone else, but you might wonder how many others are in the same situation... Regards, Igor. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
