[Python-3000-checkins] [Python-Dev] Merging mailing lists

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> I like the general sentiment, but I think it may be a bad idea to
> automatically bring all the subscribers from the -3000 lists over to the
> more general lists. For instance if someone has an address subscribed
> specifically to archive the -3000 list suddenly it will begin archiving
> the other. I would rather just see a final announcement to switch to the
> other list and then close the list to further submissions. Let people
> join the new appropriate list manually if needed.

That sounds reasonable. So no transfer of membership will be done;
people have to explicitly subscribe to python-dev and python-checkins
if they want to continue to follow the discussion.

Regards,
Martin