Moderation and Usenet

[Mario R. Osorio]

On Sunday, April 10, 2016 at 2:01:00 PM UTC-4, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 4/10/2016 1:05 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:
> 
> > If you see offensive posts from him  on the Usenet side please do not
> > respond.
> 
> Just a reminder for those who, like me, prefer a newsgroup interface for 
> python-list: gmane.comp.python.general at news.gmane.org mirrors the 
> moderated output of python-list.  (Gmane does the same for 1000s of 
> tecnhical lists.)  I believe that posts submitted from gmane are sent to 
> the list *first*, and never appear on the gmane mirror until they appear 
> on the list.  Thus one will not see and cannot accidentally respond to a 
> post that did not appear on the list.  One gets the benefits of list 
> moderation without a flooded mailbox.
> 
> -- 
> Terry Jan Reedy