Proposal: Disconnect comp.lang.python from python-list

Chris Green cl at isbd.net
Thu May 6 11:29:18 EDT 2021


Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2021-05-06, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 10:43 AM Avi Gross via Python-list
> ><python-list at python.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Chris,
> >>
> >> Given some notice, what stops anyone from joining the mailing list before
> >> there is a divorce between the forums?
> >
> > Nothing! Nothing at all. That is, if you're talking about *people*.
> > People are absolutely welcome to join. The reason the S/N would
> > improve is all the non-people who post to the newsgroup.
> >
> > But there are some people who simply don't want to use the mailing
> > list, and that's currently a fully-welcomed option. I won't name
> > names, but there definitely are people who would prefer a newsreader,
> 
> Pointing a newsreader at news.gmane.io allows one to participate in
> the mailing list just fine without using Usenet.
> 
???  Surely that *is* using Usenet, at least you're using NNTP which
is the Usenet protocol.  What's "not Usenet" about it?

> Not that I support shutting down the Usenet/email gateway -- the
> signal/noise ration seems fine to me.
> 
On that I quite agree.  :-)

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Chris Green
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