[Chicago] list name [chicago] vs. [chipy]

David Terrell dbt at meat.net
Fri Jul 21 16:33:56 CEST 2006


On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 10:15:13PM -0500, skip at pobox.com wrote:
> 
>     >> Why is this list called [Chicago] instead of [ChiPy]? Didn't it used
>     >> to be [ChiPy]? Or did I miss something? The [Chicago] tag in the
>     >> email subject line is so no descript.
> 
>     David> Actually, it has to do with it being hosted through the
>     David> python.org website now instead of by Chris.  If I remember
>     David> correctly, we went with chicago to follow a loose convention of
>     David> other lists on python.org.
> 
> Right.  We discussed it at the time of the switch to an @python.org address
> and felt that people would be more likely to recognize "chicago" than
> "chipy".  If I google for "chicago python", the top three hits are related
> to this group or its wiki.

Sure but we could still change the subject tag to chipy or chicago.py
or something.

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