How to Generate dynamic HTML Report using Python

Ned Batchelder ned at nedbatchelder.com
Tue Nov 21 06:57:11 EST 2017


On 11/20/17 9:50 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:
> Ned Batchelder <ned at nedbatchelder.com> writes:
>> Also, why set headers that prevent the Python-List mailing list from
>> archiving your messages?
>    I am posting to a Usenet newsgroup. I am not aware of any
>    "Python-List mailing list".
>
>    I am posting specifically to the Usenet, because I am aware
>    of it's rules and I like it and wish to support it.
>
>    I do not post to a "mailing list" because I do not know which
>    rules apply for mailing lists and whether mailing lists in
>    general or any specific mailing list is an environment that I
>    like or wish to support.
>

The dual nature of this online community has long been confusing and 
complicated.  It's both a newsgroup and a mailing list.  Add in Google 
Groups, and you really have three different faces of the same content.

The fact is, posting to comp.lang.python means that your words are also 
being distributed as a mailing list. Because of your messages' headers, 
they are not in the archive of that list 
(https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2017-November/thread.html), 
or in Google Groups 
(https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.python/0ejrtZ6ET9g). 
It makes for odd reading via those channels.

I don't understand the motivation for limiting how words are 
distributed, but others on this list also do it. For example, Dennis Lee 
Bieber's messages are not in the Python-List archives either. If 
something is worth saying, why not let people find it later?

--Ned.



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