[Chicago] list name [chicago] vs. [chipy]
David Rock
david at graniteweb.com
Fri Jul 21 21:26:15 CEST 2006
* David Terrell <dbt at meat.net> [2006-07-21 09:33]:
> 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.
That may be mildly confusing. "I thought this was the Chicago Python
group, not chipy."
Still, perhaps [ChiPy] would work...
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