[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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