Python list vs google group

[Paul St George]

On 15/06/2018 17:33, T Berger wrote:
> On Friday, June 15, 2018 at 12:14:30 PM UTC-4, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>> On 15/06/18 16:47, T Berger 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.
>>>
>>> Tamara
>>>
>>
>> For the third and final time, just get a (semi-)decent email client/news
>> reader/whatever it's called, point it at news.gmane.org and read this
>> forum, hundreds of other python forums and thousands of other technical
>> forums with no problems at all.  No cluttered inbox so no need to filter
>> anything.  I happen to use thunderbird, there are umpteen other choices.
>>
>> -- 
>> My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
>> what you can do for our language.
>>
>> Mark Lawrence
> 

Would you also need to know that the Newsgroup is called 
comp.python.general? I wasted many minutes looking for comp.lang.python.

So, in Thunderbird, File > New > Other Accounts...
News Server name (NNTP): news.gmane.org
Subscribe to: gmane.comp.python.general