Python list vs google group

[Chris Angelico]

On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 1:47 AM, T Berger <brgrt2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday, June 15, 2018 at 11:31:47 AM UTC-4, Alister wrote:
>
>> it certainly seems to be the source of most SPAM
>> as such some users of this list/newsgroup call it what you like block all
>> posts from google groups
>
> But you don't think you get more replies to a question posted here than emailed to the list? The forum and the email list are supposed to be different access routes to the same content, but I don't find that to be the case. I replied to a post via email, but my reply did not show up on this forum.
>

Is "more replies" your best criterion? I posted something to a much
smaller mailing list and got several HUNDRED replies. In fact, that's
happened to me multiple times, with multiple different lists. Perhaps
quantity is not the important thing here.

ChrisA