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

[Paul Bryan]

I will also add that it can get confusing when someone replies to a
newsgroup posting that was originally suppressed to the mailing list.
This has happened as recently as today.

On Thu, 2021-05-06 at 14:36 +0000, Grant Edwards 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.
> 
> Not that I support shutting down the Usenet/email gateway -- the
> signal/noise ration seems fine to me.
> 
> --
> Grant
> 
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