Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-05-02 Thread George Sakkis
On May 2, 4:49 pm, Mensanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 2, 2:57 pm, George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On May 2, 1:18 pm, Mensanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On May 2, 9:53 am, Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Shawn Milochik wrote: > > > > > Ho

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-05-02 Thread Mensanator
On May 2, 2:57 pm, George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 2, 1:18 pm, Mensanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On May 2, 9:53 am, Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Shawn Milochik wrote: > > > > How does one "plonk" stuff from Google Groups? Specifically, how > > > > ca

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-05-02 Thread Mensanator
On May 2, 2:26 pm, Arnaud Delobelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mensanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On May 2, 1:20 pm, Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Mensanator wrote: > >> > On May 2, 9:53 am, Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> Shawn Milochik wrote: > >> >>>

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-05-02 Thread George Sakkis
On May 2, 1:18 pm, Mensanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 2, 9:53 am, Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Shawn Milochik wrote: > > > How does one "plonk" stuff from Google Groups? Specifically, how > > > can this be done in Gmail? > > > Set up a filter that looks for some phras

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-05-02 Thread Arnaud Delobelle
Mensanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On May 2, 1:20 pm, Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Mensanator wrote: >> > On May 2, 9:53 am, Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Shawn Milochik wrote: >> >>> How does one "plonk" stuff from Google Groups? Specifically, how >> >>> ca

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-05-02 Thread Mensanator
On May 2, 1:20 pm, Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mensanator wrote: > > On May 2, 9:53 am, Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Shawn Milochik wrote: > >>> How does one "plonk" stuff from Google Groups? Specifically, how > >>> can this be done in Gmail? > >> Set up a filter t

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-05-02 Thread Michael Torrie
Mensanator wrote: > On May 2, 9:53 am, Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Shawn Milochik wrote: >>> How does one "plonk" stuff from Google Groups? Specifically, how >>> can this be done in Gmail? >> Set up a filter that looks for some phrase in the mail headers that >> identifies messages

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-05-02 Thread Mensanator
On May 2, 9:53 am, Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shawn Milochik wrote: > > How does one "plonk" stuff from Google Groups? Specifically, how > > can this be done in Gmail? > > Set up a filter that looks for some phrase in the mail headers that > identifies messages originating from goo

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-05-02 Thread Michael Torrie
Shawn Milochik wrote: > How does one "plonk" stuff from Google Groups? Specifically, how > can this be done in Gmail? Set up a filter that looks for some phrase in the mail headers that identifies messages originating from google groups. Gmail's filters are fairly flexible. I'd probably just hav

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-30 Thread Shawn Milochik
How does one "plonk" stuff from Google Groups? Specifically, how can this be done in Gmail? Thanks, Shawn -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-21 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! NickC writes: > Hmm, according to this thread I probably shouldn't bother even > trying to contribute to c.l.p discussions that are highlighted in > the Python- URL announcements, even in cases where I think a core > developer's perspective may be of interest. As someone that only > po

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-21 Thread NickC
Hmm, according to this thread I probably shouldn't bother even trying to contribute to c.l.p discussions that are highlighted in the Python- URL announcements, even in cases where I think a core developer's perspective may be of interest. As someone that only posts here rarely, and uses Google Grou

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-20 Thread Aahz
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >This morning almost half of c.l.p was spam. In order to try to not tar >both the benign google group users and the malignant ones with the same >brush, I've been trying to kill usenet spam with subject patterns. But >tha

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-20 Thread Aahz
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Driscoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >My workplace doesn't offer NNTP, so there is no good way to browse >c.l.py here. And I haven't been able to get NNTP to work from my home >either. Can you use ssh? Get a shell account somewhere else. -- Aahz ([EMAIL PRO

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-20 Thread Terry Reedy
"Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] En Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:23:57 -0300, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Torsten Bronger wrote: >> The admistrative overhead of mailing lists is tedious. Fortunately, >> most important computer-related list

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-20 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:23:57 -0300, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Torsten Bronger wrote: >> The admistrative overhead of mailing lists is tedious. Fortunately, >> most important computer-related lists are on gmane.org. We could >> list c.l.py there, too. ;-) >> > c.l.py has been

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-17 Thread Michael Torrie
Mike Driscoll wrote: > I'm confused. First you say Gmail is create for filtering and then you > say it has a broken interface. I like Gmail for some things, but my > inability to create folders is one thing that really bugs me. I can > set up Thunderbird to accept mail from Gmail and do it that way

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-04-17, Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:19:37 -0500, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > >> I broke down and joined all the other people that just killfile >> everything posted via google.groups. > > Unfortu

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-04-17, John Salerno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: >> This morning almost half of c.l.p was spam. In order to try to >> not tar both the benign google group users and the malignant >> ones with the same brush, I've been trying to kill usenet spam >> with subject patterns

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread John Salerno
Grant Edwards wrote: > This morning almost half of c.l.p was spam. In order to try to > not tar both the benign google group users and the malignant > ones with the same brush, I've been trying to kill usenet spam > with subject patterns. But that's not a battle you can win, so > I broke down and

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread Kam-Hung Soh
On Apr 17, 1:14 am, Mike Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 16, 10:26 am, Mike Driscoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yeah, I noticed that Google Groups has really sucked this week. I'm > > using the Google Groups Killfile for Greasemonkey now and it helps a > > lot. I like Google, but my

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread Michael Torrie
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Mike Driscoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think I like the email list idea all that much. I'm already on > a number of them and they fill up my box like crazy. Besides that, in > email format it's hard to follow the thread, so one moment I'm reading > abo

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread Mensanator
On Apr 16, 1:43 pm, Severian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2008-04-16, Mensanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Apr 16, 9:19 am, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> This morning almost half of c.l.p was spam.  In order to try > >>> to not tar both the beni

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread Severian
Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2008-04-16, Mensanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Apr 16, 9:19 am, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> This morning almost half of c.l.p was spam. In order to try >>> to not tar both the benign google group users and the >>> malignant ones with the same bru

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread lbonafide
On Apr 16, 11:06 am, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not saying people shouldn't use Google Groups. I'm saying that > Google can "justify" providing customer "support" that lives somewhere > between zero and extremely crappy by not charging for the service. It's even worse than that

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-04-16, Mensanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 16, 9:19 am, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> This morning almost half of c.l.p was spam.  In order to try >> to not tar both the benign google group users and the >> malignant ones with the same brush, I've been trying to kil

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread J. Cliff Dyer
On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 10:49 -0700, Mike Driscoll wrote: > On Apr 16, 12:40 pm, "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:23:50 -0700 (PDT) > > > > Mike Driscoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My workplace doesn't offer NNTP, so there is no good way to browse > > > c

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread J. Cliff Dyer
On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 12:06 -0400, Steve Holden wrote: > Mike Driscoll wrote: > > On Apr 16, 10:09 am, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Mike Driscoll wrote: > >>> On Apr 16, 9:19 am, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This morning almost half of c.l.p was spam. In order to

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread Dan Upton
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Mike Driscoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 16, 12:40 pm, "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't think I like the email list idea all that much. I'm already on > a number of them and they fill up my box like crazy. Besides that, in > emai

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! D'Arcy J.M. Cain writes: > On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:11:09 -0700 > "Daniel Fetchinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Full disclosure: I'm using google groups for both reading and >> writing. > > You are? Maybe, but not with this posting. It was sent through the mailing list. By the w

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:39:16 -0600 Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Running a few lists myself, I don't see this. How is administrative > overhead tedious? Most open source projects do it, so I wonder just how > tedious it is. Of all the projects I'm associated with in lists, Python >

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:11:09 -0700 "Daniel Fetchinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Full disclosure: I'm using google groups for both reading and writing. You are? I guess I don't have my filter set correctly then. Can someone please tell me what headers indicate that it is a Google groups posti

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Apr 16, 11:06 am, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Driscoll wrote: > > On Apr 16, 10:09 am, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Mike Driscoll wrote: > >>> On Apr 16, 9:19 am, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This morning almost half of c.l.p was spam. In or

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Apr 16, 12:40 pm, "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:23:50 -0700 (PDT) > > Mike Driscoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My workplace doesn't offer NNTP, so there is no good way to browse > > c.l.py here. And I haven't been able to get NNTP to work from my home

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread Mensanator
On Apr 16, 9:19 am, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This morning almost half of c.l.p was spam.  In order to try to > not tar both the benign google group users and the malignant > ones with the same brush, I've been trying to kill usenet spam > with subject patterns.  But that's not a b

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! Steve Holden writes: > Torsten Bronger wrote: > >> [...] >> >> The admistrative overhead of mailing lists is tedious. >> Fortunately, most important computer-related lists are on >> gmane.org. We could list c.l.py there, too. ;-) > > c.l.py has been on gmane for years, as comp.python

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:23:50 -0700 (PDT) Mike Driscoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My workplace doesn't offer NNTP, so there is no good way to browse > c.l.py here. And I haven't been able to get NNTP to work from my home > either. Hi Mike; I am half way to killing Google groups myself. Your me

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread Steve Holden
Torsten Bronger wrote: > Hallöchen! > > Michael Torrie writes: > >> [...] >> >> This official python list is one of the few lists that's even >> still on nntp. All my other ones (gnome, gtk, openldap, clamav, >> freeradius, etc) are all e-mail mailing lists only and it works >> very well. In fa

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! Michael Torrie writes: > Torsten Bronger wrote: > >> The admistrative overhead of mailing lists is tedious. >> Fortunately, most important computer-related lists are on >> gmane.org. We could list c.l.py there, too. ;-) > > Running a few lists myself, I don't see this. How is > admi

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-04-16, Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> My workplace doesn't offer NNTP, so there is no good way to browse >> c.l.py here. Browse it via the mailing list using gmane.org. There are no ads and your postings won't get plonked by everybody. >> And I haven't been able to get NNT

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread Michael Torrie
Torsten Bronger wrote: > The admistrative overhead of mailing lists is tedious. Fortunately, > most important computer-related lists are on gmane.org. We could > list c.l.py there, too. ;-) Running a few lists myself, I don't see this. How is administrative overhead tedious? Most open source

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! Michael Torrie writes: > [...] > > This official python list is one of the few lists that's even > still on nntp. All my other ones (gnome, gtk, openldap, clamav, > freeradius, etc) are all e-mail mailing lists only and it works > very well. In fact, I think it's much better since li

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread Michael Torrie
Mike Driscoll wrote: > Steve, > > My workplace doesn't offer NNTP, so there is no good way to browse > c.l.py here. And I haven't been able to get NNTP to work from my home > either. I rarely use NNTP these days. I access c.l.py exclusively via e-mail, and that works very well. In some cases th

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> > > On Apr 16, 9:19 am, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> This morning almost half of c.l.p was spam. In order to try to > > >> not tar both the benign google group users and the malignant > > >> ones with the same brush, I've been trying to kill usenet spam > > >> with subject pat

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread Steve Holden
Mike Driscoll wrote: > On Apr 16, 10:09 am, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Mike Driscoll wrote: >>> On Apr 16, 9:19 am, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This morning almost half of c.l.p was spam. In order to try to not tar both the benign google group users and the m

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Apr 16, 10:09 am, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Driscoll wrote: > > On Apr 16, 9:19 am, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> This morning almost half of c.l.p was spam. In order to try to > >> not tar both the benign google group users and the malignant > >> ones with

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread Jon Ribbens
On 2008-04-16, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But that's not a battle you can win, so I broke down and joined all > the other people that just killfile everything posted via google.groups. I did the same about an hour ago. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread Mike Kent
On Apr 16, 10:26 am, Mike Driscoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, I noticed that Google Groups has really sucked this week. I'm > using the Google Groups Killfile for Greasemonkey now and it helps a > lot. I like Google, but my loyalty only goes to far. This is a > complete lack of customer se

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread Steve Holden
Mike Driscoll wrote: > On Apr 16, 9:19 am, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> This morning almost half of c.l.p was spam. In order to try to >> not tar both the benign google group users and the malignant >> ones with the same brush, I've been trying to kill usenet spam >> with subject pa

Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Apr 16, 9:19 am, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This morning almost half of c.l.p was spam. In order to try to > not tar both the benign google group users and the malignant > ones with the same brush, I've been trying to kill usenet spam > with subject patterns. But that's not a b