Usenet vs. Mailing-list

[Ben Bacarisse]

Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet at unequivocal.eu> writes:

> On 2023-01-29, Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet at bsb.me.uk> wrote:
>> "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-python at hjp.at> writes:
>>
>>> On 2023-01-27 21:04:58 +0000, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>>>> Muttley at dastardlyhq.com writes:
>>>> 
>>>> > Hi
>>>> 
>>>> It looks like you posted this question via Usenet.  comp.lang.python is
>>>> essentially dead as a Usenet group.  It exists, and gets NNTP versions
>>>> of mail sent to the mailing list, but nothing posted to the group via
>>>> NNTP get send on the mailing list.
>>>
>>> This is wrong. I did get Muttley's any your postings via the
>>> mailing-list.
>>
>> Ah, OK.  I thought that was the case but I am obviously wrong.  Has
>> there been a change, or have I been wrong for a long time!?
>
> I'm not aware of any significant period in the last twenty-one years
> that it hasn't been working. Although sometimes it does feel like it
> isn't, in that I reply to a post with an answer and then several
> other people reply significantly later with the same answer, as if
> my one had never existed... but whenever I check into it, my message
> has actually always made it to the list.

I have had the same experience and, as a result, I rarely post.  Maybe
what I have to say is simply not interesting!

-- 
Ben.