[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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David Rock
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