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From: Andreas Waldenburger on 4 Jun 2010 14:21 On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:57:15 +1000 Ben Finney <ben+python(a)benfinney.id.au> wrote: > Andreas Waldenburger <usenot(a)geekmail.INVALID> writes: > > > But consolidation is the *only* way to go, really. The parallelism > > between c.l.p. and python-list is great already. Now throw some sort > > of Forum in the mix > > This already *is* a forum. Whatever it is you think is needed, it's > already a forum. Can you be more specific about what you would add? > I meant a web forum. /W -- INVALID? DE!
From: Alf P. Steinbach on 4 Jun 2010 14:36 * Andreas Waldenburger, on 04.06.2010 20:21: > On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:57:15 +1000 Ben Finney > <ben+python(a)benfinney.id.au> wrote: > >> Andreas Waldenburger<usenot(a)geekmail.INVALID> writes: >> >>> But consolidation is the *only* way to go, really. The parallelism >>> between c.l.p. and python-list is great already. Now throw some sort >>> of Forum in the mix >> >> This already *is* a forum. Whatever it is you think is needed, it's >> already a forum. Can you be more specific about what you would add? >> > > I meant a web forum. You can access [comp.lang.python] via Google Groups and other web based interfaces. So it already is a web forum. Cheers & hth., - Alf -- blog at <url: http://alfps.wordpress.com>
From: Andreas Waldenburger on 4 Jun 2010 14:37 On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 09:28:23 -0700 Emile van Sebille <emile(a)fenx.com> wrote: > On 6/3/2010 10:41 PM Steven D'Aprano said... > > On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 06:15:20 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > >> Most people use this list via e-mail, > > > > How do you know? Do you have evidence for this, or are you just > > making it up? > > > > Is there now a non-email method of posting to this list? > Te-he. Yes. In case you're not being ironic: <http://www.python.org/community/lists/> /W -- INVALID? DE!
From: John Bokma on 4 Jun 2010 14:37 Pierre Quentel <quentel.pierre(a)wanadoo.fr> writes: > They certainly *can* distinguish. But it's so easy to make it more > explicit with syntax highlighting, background color, border etc. that > most sites about programing languages use it, including the Python > home site itself, or the Python cookbook on Active State [..] > That's 2 different things. When you use a programming language you > know you have to adopt the syntax defined by the program. When you > write something in a forum, you expect that the editor will be smart > enough to know that http://pythonforum.org is a URL You're using a bad Usenet client. Switch to Gnus, part of Emacs, for example and you can have both. -- John Bokma j3b Hacking & Hiking in Mexico - http://johnbokma.com/ http://castleamber.com/ - Perl & Python Development
From: John Bokma on 4 Jun 2010 14:41
Steven D'Aprano <steve(a)REMOVE-THIS-cybersource.com.au> writes: > Sure, a lot of those 1,800 posts are spam, but the spammers wouldn't > waste their time if they didn't think there were people still on > Usenet. Heh, since spamming goes automatically who cares how many people it reaches. I also see spam in which people forget to include a URL, etc. My site is daily hit by badly written spam software. So, no: spam is not by far any way to measure the number of readers. On top of that, there is /no way/ to even determine how many people read a given Usenet group. > How do you know? Do you have evidence for this, or are you just making it > up? I guess the same way as your remark regarding spam: guessing (I guess) ;-) > I happen to know at least one of the Gnus users is using News, so that's > 1 definite News, 2 Web, 4 either News or email, and no definite email. Fwiw: I use Usenet :-). -- John Bokma j3b Hacking & Hiking in Mexico - http://johnbokma.com/ http://castleamber.com/ - Perl & Python Development |