What to use instead of nntplib?

Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards at gmail.com
Mon May 22 12:10:05 EDT 2023


On 2023-05-21, Retrograde <fungus at amongus.com> wrote:

> Who ever came up with "Removing dead batteries" as a slogan, when
> some of those batteries still work perfectly well, needs to rethink
> it. Go ahead and remove code that no longer works, OK.  But removing
> unpopular modules?  That undercuts the entire philosophy of the
> platform, in my opinion.

And one of the metrics of "popularity" seems to be "activity"
(e.g. changes committed).  For things that have been around for 20+
years and have all the features they need and all of the bugs fixed
(and are now very stable) that lack of "activity" is interpreted as
"unpopular" regardless of how many people are using the module.

--
Grant






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