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mailing list vs. usenet?

John Schmitt jschmitt at vmlabs.com
Thu Nov 16 18:16:03 EST 2000 
You know what they say, right?  Something like

"""
The difference between theory and practice is bigger in practice than the
difference between theory and practice in theory.
"""

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Peters [mailto:tim.one at home.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 3:05 PM
> To: John Schmitt; python-list at python.org
> Subject: RE: mailing list vs. usenet?
> 
> 
> [posted & mailed]
> 
> [John Schmitt]
> > Are all the messages that get posted to comp.lang.python copied
> > to this mailing list?  I just looked at dejanews.com and saw some
> > messages that didn't seem to appear on this list.
> 
> In theory, it's a two-way street, except that some kinds of 
> spam posted to
> the newsgroup shouldn't show up on the mailing list.
> 
> In practice, the hardware running the python.org mailing 
> lists is inadequate
> (in particular, runs out of disk space routinely), and the newsfeed is
> sometimes flaky too.  Given "the usual" vagaries of newsfeed 
> propagation,
> even if everything is working perfectly, seeing a *recent* 
> msg on DejaNews
> (or any other specific news server) says nothing about 
> whether it will show
> up on the mailing list.
> 
> The most common failure mode over the years is msgs mailed to 
> the mailing
> list that never make it to the newsgroup.  Indeed, some of 
> the best msgs
> ever posted <wink>.
> 
> it's-software-it's-unreliable-ly y'rs  - tim
> 
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