Are you aware of the service supplied by gmane.org? Using it, you can
subscribe to wxPython-users (and many other lists) as a newsgroup rather
than as a mailing list.
I imagine that having a separate newsgroup would fragment the community
somewhat. That said, I'd be curious hearing what others have to say
about it.
[Frankly, I'd be happy just having an easier way to search archived
wxPython-users messages. ASPN's browser interface doesn't seem to get
along with me well. Even having a huge text archive of old messages
would be handier to me.]
authors@arcanatech.com 03/28/04 03:58PM >>>
I have set up a private news server with newsgroups dedicated to Python
and
wxPython.
Are you aware of the service supplied by gmane.org? Using it, you can
subscribe to wxPython-users (and many other lists) as a newsgroup rather
than as a mailing list.
I imagine that having a separate newsgroup would fragment the community
somewhat. That said, I'd be curious hearing what others have to say
about it.
I agree with you. newsgroups do have some advantages for some people (I think it has something to do with bandwidth) but as you said they can get it via gmane.
[Frankly, I'd be happy just having an easier way to search archived
wxPython-users messages. ASPN's browser interface doesn't seem to get
along with me well. Even having a huge text archive of old messages
would be handier to me.]
an archive would be useful but only to a point. messages that are to old might not be all that good (problem fixed / wrong solution) even if this promotes "polution", asking in present is the best way. An official IRC channel with some gurus available all the time would be nice but this eats a lot of time, time better spent coding. There is a wxpython channel on irc.freenode.net but it seams deserted. BTW is this the official wxpython IRC channel?
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On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 17:21:53 -0800, Brian Almond <BAlmond@russreid.com> wrote:
There is a wxpython channel on irc.freenode.net but it seams deserted. BTW is this the official wxpython IRC channel?
Not official (as in I don't have a bot running there to own the channel for me ) but since there is almost always nothing but bots there I never /join it... There is an active #wxwidgets channel on freenode, and (I'm going to regret saying this I'm sure) I am often lurking on that channel, and will once in a while even pay attention to the messages flying by. There are a few other folks that are often there that are well versed in wxPython and are very helpful.
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Robin Dunn
Software Craftsman http://wxPython.org Java give you jitters? Relax with wxPython!
Mailing lists still loose discussion threading of messages, which is the
main advantage of newsgroups.
That's not true, I've always a threading view for my mailinglist
subscriptions. The problem is, that the users of several mailinglist a
too stupid and begin a new thread in an old thread by just changing
the subject line. (Stupid might to be too hard. Read: are not aware
about. ;))
The python mailinglist (not this list) is a good example for this.
Mozilla Mail and Thunderbird can display e-mail in a threading view,
for example.
newsgroups do have some advantages for some people (I think it has something to do with bandwidth) but as you said they can get it via gmane.
) but since there is almost always nothing but bots there I never /join it... There is an active