[Python-Dev] Merry Christmas to me, and Python users everywhere (original) (raw)

Glenn Linderman v+python at g.nevcal.com
Mon Dec 26 23:46:28 EST 2016

On 12/26/2016 1:25 AM, Glenn Linderman wrote:

I didn't see an announcement that 3.6.0 had actually been released

Off list, Burkhard Meier helped me figure out why I hadn't seen the announcement:

It was sent as one email cross-posted to multiple groups. I am subscribed to 3 of those groups: python-announce, python-list, python-dev with this same email address. My mail filter rules would have seen the many To: address, and filtered /all/ copies I received to the python-list mailbox, because my filter rules looked for python-list before python-dev. I've just changed that to give priority to python-dev before the others. (just one of the evil side-effects of cross-posting!)

But, as far as I can tell, I only received one message, and that went to the wrong folder first... the one where python-list should go. In reviewing my filters, I was reminded that python-announce and python-dev go to the same folder, which I read regularly. The python-list folder I can't keep up with, I read it occasionally, and search it when I have questions -- using it as a locally stored resource of helpful tips, and that is where the announcement went, because of the order of my filter rules, and the cross-posted announcement.

So either Google (my email host) noticed that I got 3 of the same message, and suppressed two of them, or the python-dev mail server that hosts the mailing lists merged the expanded destinations with duplicate suppression. I'm inclined to think the former is more likely. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20161226/6b725714/attachment.html>

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