Python Mailing list moderators

Mon Nov 6 12:53:59 EST 2017

On Sun, 5 Nov 2017 17:28:05 -0500, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> On 11/5/2017 4:14 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
>> On 05Nov2017 13:09, Στέφανος Σωφρονίου <stefanossofroniou542 at gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>> Folks,
>>> More and more nonsense are coming in and I find it really difficult to 
>>> follow any new post that may come and I have to either search for 
>>> specific content or scroll down until I hit it by accident.
>>>>>> Can we do something about it?
>>> It's getting really frustrating :/
>>>> It seems from the headers on your message that you're actually using the 
>> comp.lang.python newsgroup and not the mailing list. The newsgroup is 
>> completed unmoderated.  The mailing list is far less noisy.
>>>> Go here:
>>>>  https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>>>> and subscribe, and see if things seem better than the newsgroup.
> Or point your newsreader to news.gmane.org group 
> gmane.comp.python.general, which mirrors python-list.
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