Re: Newsgroups and mailing lists (was Re: Slightly OT: Why all thespam?)

2007-05-25 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
"Steve Holden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I *did* try to explain all this a week or two ago. Did I not make myself >clear? Aah ! This makes a couple of assumptions, none of which are necessarily based on fact, namely: 1) That the people involved read what you wrote. 2) That they understood i

Re: Newsgroups and mailing lists (was Re: Slightly OT: Why all thespam?)

2007-05-25 Thread Terry Reedy
"Steve Holden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | I *did* try to explain all this a week or two ago. Did I not make myself clear? I could ask the same. Quoting from that post: | All I am saying is that it's difficult to catch *everything* when so | much of the cont

Re: Newsgroups and mailing lists (was Re: Slightly OT: Why all the spam?)

2007-05-25 Thread Steve Holden
Gabriel Genellina wrote: > En Thu, 24 May 2007 21:53:24 -0300, Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > escribió: > >> "Aahz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> | First of all, if you're accessing python-list as comp.lang.python, >> you're >> | accessing a newsgroup, *n

Re: Newsgroups and mailing lists (was Re: Slightly OT: Why all the spam?)

2007-05-25 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Thu, 24 May 2007 21:53:24 -0300, Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > "Aahz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > | First of all, if you're accessing python-list as comp.lang.python, > you're > | accessing a newsgroup, *not* a mailing list. Secondly, c.l.p

Re: Newsgroups and mailing lists (was Re: Slightly OT: Why all the spam?)

2007-05-24 Thread Terry Reedy
"Aahz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | First of all, if you're accessing python-list as comp.lang.python, you're | accessing a newsgroup, *not* a mailing list. Secondly, c.l.py is an | unmoderated group; there is no moderator and no control over who posts. | However

Re: Newsgroups and mailing lists (was Re: Slightly OT: Why all the spam?)

2007-05-24 Thread Robert Kern
Aahz wrote: > These days, because of the cancelbot wars, ... Heh. Sounds like a particularly dire episode of Doctor Who. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an

Re: newsgroups

2004-12-12 Thread Abe Mathews
I've got mine delivered to a gmail account. For me, it was much easier than trying to find a NNTP host that would allow me to check remotely (many ISP's don't). Set up a filter so that everything that comes in from the list is marked "Python". Star anything that looks promising, delete the rest.

Re: newsgroups

2004-12-12 Thread Terry Reedy
"Egor Bolonev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 14:57:50 -0500, Francis Lavoie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> Do we need a special account or something to use the newsgroup instead >> of the mailling list? news.gmane.org gives you access to t

Re: newsgroups

2004-12-12 Thread Francis Lavoie
Egor Bolonev wrote: On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 14:57:50 -0500, Francis Lavoie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do we need a special account or something to use the newsgroup instead of the mailling list? why we use newsgroup instead of mailing list? 1. to keep my mail separated from the python discussion.

Re: newsgroups

2004-12-12 Thread Egor Bolonev
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 14:57:50 -0500, Francis Lavoie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do we need a special account or something to use the newsgroup instead of the mailling list? why we use newsgroup instead of mailing list? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: newsgroups

2004-12-12 Thread Steve Holden
Francis Lavoie wrote: Do we need a special account or something to use the newsgroup instead of the mailling list? Yes, you have to find an NNTP server that carries comp.lang.python. It's possible your Internet service provider runs such a news server and will let you access it as a part of your