Peter J. Holzer wrote: > On 2018-06-04 16:34:08 +0000, Peter Pearson wrote: >> On Sun, 3 Jun 2018 20:20:32 +0200, Peter J. Holzer <hjp-pyt...@hjp.at> >> wrote: >> > On 2018-06-03 13:57:26 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: >> >> (For good reasons, attachments are dropped when messages are >> >> distributed on the forum.) >> > >> > By "the forum" you mean Gmane? (I got the attachment over the mailing >> > list) >> >> Comp.lang.python is a usenet newsgroup, also accessible through a mailing >> list (and, I think, a web interface). NNTP, the Network News Transfer >> Protocol, does not provide for attachments. > > This is not true. NNTP doesn't care about the content of the message at > all (as long as it contains the few mandatory headers). As a case in > point, Jach Fong's message got here fine (including the attachment) via > this path: > news.luga.at!news.albasani.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal- september.org!news.szaf.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail > So it was 6 or 7 times transmitted via NNTP with the attachment intact. > > There is a rather strong *convention* to avoid attachments in many news > hierarchies (comp.* being one of them), and some newsservers may filter > them. But clearly none of the 7 newsservers mentioned above does this, > at least not for *text* attachments (they might do it for binary > attachments). > > So we have determined that "the forum" is not the mailing list and not > the newsgroup (Jach's message appeared on both with the attachment). Ben > uses Gmane, which makes it likely that he is talking about a > (mis)feature of Gmane,
However, I did see that particular particular attachment, test.py in Jach's original post, and I'm reading c.l.py via gmane. > > hp > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
