On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 5:55 PM Jon Ribbens via Python-list < python-list@python.org> wrote:
> On 2021-04-20, Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote: > > Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> writes: > >> List, my apologies -- not sure how that one got through. > > > > It was trollishly written but was a reasonable observation on the state > > of the Usenet group. I didn't realize it had come through (or reached) > > the mailing list. Anyway the state of affairs for us Usenet die-hards > > isn't so great. > > Why do you say that? The group seems quite lively to me > (and no I'm not counting spam etc). > Actually, this list is less busy than it was a decade or two ago, but that's probably because of things like stackoverflow, python-dev, pypy-dev, cython-devel, python-ideas, distutils-sig, issue trackers, code-quality, and probably others. There was a time when most python-related discussion happened here on python-list/comp.lang.python. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list