Re: [META] Why are duplicate posts coming through?

2017-11-27 Thread nospam . Skip Montanaro
Chris, Please forward one or two to me. Mark Sapiro and I have been banging on the SpamBayes instance which supports the Usenet gateway. I suppose it's possible some change caused the problem you're seeing. Skip On Nov 26, 2017 5:22 PM, "Chris Angelico" wrote: Not sure whether this is an issue

Re: Increasing the diversity of people who write Python (was:

2017-11-27 Thread nospam . Skip Montanaro
> I strongly suspect that any recent emacs will have M-x insert-char > (earlier it was called ucs-insert) default bound C-x 8 RET (yeah thats clunky) > which will accept at the minibuffer input I tried C-x 8 e acute TAB and was prompted with "E-acute". I don't know why it would have capitalized t

Re: Increasing the diversity of people who write Python (was:

2017-11-27 Thread nospam . Skip Montanaro
> If you have a Windows key, you can assign it to be > the Compose key. Would this be true on a machine running Windows? My work environment has me developing on Linux, with a Windows desktop. It's not clear to me that any sort of xmodmap shennanigans would work. Won't Windows itself always gobbl

Re: nospam ** infinity?

2017-11-27 Thread nospam . Skip Montanaro
> There seems to be a gateway loop of some sort going on. > I'm seeing multiple versions of the same posts in > comp.lang.python with different numbers of "nospam"s > prepended to the email address. This is the second thread about this. I was thinking it might be related to recent changes to the g