Thank you both for your replies. And my personal "Thank you!" to Mr. Hettinger for all his tremendous work!
> Perhaps because you are not using a real Usenet client? Yes! And I don't even know what is the beast - Usenet client. I just keep in Favorites of my browser (IE 6.0) this link: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list