[Python-3000] Is reference counting still needed?

[Tim Peters]

[Tim Peters]
...
>>That thread should still be required reading for anyone thinking of
>> changing CPython's gc strategy:
>>
>>     http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/1999-July/0073.html

[Brian Harring]
> Seem to have missed a few digits in the url...
>
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/1999-July/007623.html

Indeed!  Since it was just copy+paste from a Firefox address bar,
dropping two digits "in the middle" may seem inexplicable.  But I'm
not fooled, and now that Guido works at Google perhaps they'll fix
this egregious gmail bug ;-)