What people are using to access this mailing list

[John Bond]

Hope this isn't too O/T - I was just wondering how people read/send to this
mailing list, eg. normal email client, gmane, some other software or online
service?

My normal inbox is getting unmanageable, and I think I need to find a new way
of following this and other lists.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Cheers, JB.

 

[Steven D'Aprano]

Hope this isn't too O/T - I was just wondering how people read/send to
this mailing list, eg. normal email client, gmane, some other software
or online service?

Usenet via my ISP, on comp.lang.python.

 

[tinnews]

Hope this isn't too O/T - I was just wondering how people read/send to this
mailing list, eg. normal email client, gmane, some other software or online
service?

My normal inbox is getting unmanageable, and I think I need to find a new way
of following this and other lists.

Thanks for any suggestions.

I read it as a Usenet newsgroup, far better than as an E-Mail list
IMHO. Wherever I have a choice (quite a few mailing lists are
'gatewayed' with newsgroups) I choose the newsgroup, newsreaders are
much more able to manage this sort of discussion group.

Alternatively, if you want to stay with the E-Mail format then use
some sort of filtering that will allow you to send each mailing list
to its own folder. I do this with a home-grown python script but most
E-Mail programs have the ability to do this themselves nowadays.

 

[John Bond]

Usenet via my ISP, on comp.lang.python.

Using what client (or web client)?

Cheers, JB

 

[Paul Rudin]

Using what client (or web client)?

Emacs, of course :-;

 

[Adam Tauno Williams]

GNOME's awesome Evolution mail (IMAP) client.

Via a SIEVE script on a Cyrus IMAP server the mailist traffic is
automatically placed in a folder. Then it can be read with any IMAP
traffic. Delete the silly traffic and that folder becomes an invaluable
resource of useful information [no wading through pages and pages of
search-result-swill].

<http://projects.gnome.org/evolution/index.shtml>
<http://www.cyrusimap.org/#imap>

 

[Roy Smith]

Hope this isn't too O/T - I was just wondering how people read/send to this
mailing list, eg. normal email client, gmane, some other software or online
service?

Usenet group comp.lang.python. Most of the time, using MT-NewsWatcher
on my Mac. Occasionally via the Google Groups web interface.

 

[Grant Edwards]

Emacs, of course :-;

Slrn, of course.

 

[QoS]

Pan newsreader

Using Perl and NewsSurfer to read this newsgroup (check headers).

Thanks,
J

 

[Wolfgang Strobl]

Hope this isn't too O/T - I was just wondering how people read/send to this
mailing list, eg. normal email client, gmane, some other software or online
service?

I'm reading comp.lang.python on usenet, using Forté Agent as a
newsreader, which connects via nntp to a locally managed leafnode, which
in turn is fed by http://news.individual.net/ (for most newsgroups) and
http://news.gmane.org/ (for some mailing lists which are only available
there). I usually try to avoid reading mailing lists as mail.

My normal inbox is getting unmanageable, and I think I need to find a new way
of following this and other lists.

Another way to regain control is to use separate mail adresses for
different purposes. I'm adding another alias for a new subscription or a
new registration email adress each time I subscribe to something.

 

[Martin Gregorie]

Slrn, of course.

Pan since I'm on Linux.

Agent if I was still a Windows user. Its the best news reader I've used.

 

[Tim Harig]

Slrn, of course.

Of, course.

 

[Grant Edwards]

Of, course.

The OP could have figured all this out by himself by merely looking at
the headers for a sampling of articles.

Heck, with about 50 lines of Python, one could probably produced a
fairly comprehensive statistical report on access methods and clients
used by posters to "this mailing list". [An NNTP client module is one
of the "batteries", and that module's docs contains most of the code
needed to access the articles.]

Finding out the access methods used by people who don't post is
somewhat more difficult.

 

[Steven D'Aprano]

Using what client (or web client)?

Usually Pan, sometimes KNode.

 

[Aahz]

Slrn, of course.

trn3.6, of course.

 

[John Bond]

The OP could have figured all this out by himself by merely looking at
the headers for a sampling of articles.

Heck, with about 50 lines of Python, one could probably produced a
fairly comprehensive statistical report on access methods and clients
used by posters to "this mailing list". [An NNTP client module is one
of the "batteries", and that module's docs contains most of the code
needed to access the articles.]

Finding out the access methods used by people who don't post is
somewhat more difficult.

The OP isn't that clever! )

Cheers, JB

 

[tinnews]

Of, course.

Well I actually prefer tin to slrn but that's what's good, both are
available still and well supported.

 

[Peter Pearson]

Hope this isn't too O/T - I was just wondering how people read/send to this
mailing list, eg. normal email client, gmane, some other software or online
service?

Usenet via a server at news.individual.net,
newsgroup name comp.lang.python, client slrn.

 

[Kev Dwyer]

Usenet via my ISP, on comp.lang.python.

news.gmane.org, using Pan.