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[James Kew]

Anton Muhin wrote:
> Patrick Useldinger wrote:
>> Splitting this newsgroup *is* a great idea, as reading it tends to
>> become a full-time job, and not everybody either reads it at work,
>> or is able to work only 8 hours a day ;-)
>
> Quite agree, what can be done for it?

Stop thinking you have to read it all? I'm pretty selective about which
threads I read, and I'll happily ignore or mark-read any threads which don't
interest me: I have no problem keeping up with c.l.p. (Python-URL! is pretty
good at highlighting any gems I skip or miss, too.)

Splitting the newsgroup -- and the mailing-list, don't forget that c.l.p is
a mirror of python-list -- would simply mean N groups to keep up with rather
than 1 (or 2, if you also follow python-dev).

And it'll mean many more posts to the wrong group, crossposted across
multiple groups, or multiposted across multiple groups. This already happens
regularly on python-dev: although it's not as visible as c.l.p, as it isn't
mirrored to a Usenet group (www.gmane.org nonwithstanding), it still sees
two or three posts a week which get politely redirected back to python-list.

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James Kew
james.kew at btinternet.com