news.gmane.org (was Re: Awsome Python - chained exceptions

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On 02/17/2013 11:10 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 2/18/2013 12:51 AM, Rick Johnson wrote:
>  > if you (or anyone else) would be kind enough to recommend an
>  > alternative to this gawd awful software [google groups],
> ?  i'm all ears. My expectations at minimum are:
> 
> For at least the 10th time, there is little to no excuse for reading and 
> writing python-list thru google-groups. The news.gmane.org mirror has 
> multiple interfaces:

And for at least the 11th time, you are wrong.  There are reasons
(not applicable to everyone but applicable to many) for using
Google Groups, among others it is more accessible and easier to 
use for many than a news reader with Gmane.

That you don't like aspects of the posts produced by GG is fine
(I don't either) but it does not justify posting BS claims -- if 
you want people to use Gmane because *you* don't like reading GG
posts then say so but don't claim that doing so is just as easy 
as GG -- it is not.

There are ways of mitigating some of the worst characteristics of
GG posts, see 

  http://wiki.python.org/moin/GoogleGroupsPython