Grant> If I allowed news posts to interrupt me, I'd never get anything Grant> done. I limit e-mail to things that really do require fairly Grant> immediate attention.
Well, I do try to limit the number of things I pay attention to. However, as the "Python guy" at work, participating in this group and the python-dev mailing list overlap my daytime duties. There are a few other things I watch as well (matplotlib, pygtk, moin, scipy, etc). Running through all of them in one place simplifies my life. Last time I checked, most of Usenet was crap (overrun with spam), so on those few occasions where I need something I just use Google to search for help and post via Google or Gmane. I never have to worry about NNTP. I have no idea if my ISP (Comcast) even provides NNTP access. Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list