Two newby's questions

[Marcello Pietrobon]

Hi,
python really looks a great language.

I wish C++ would have some of them !

Here the questions

1)
I preferred to use the newsgroup but the server
   comp.lang.python / c.l.python ( as it appears with Mozilla ) looks down !
Am I doing something worng or the link from the python.org pages
http://www.python.org/community/lists.html
does not work ?


2)
Is there a place where there are very small code snippets so a person 
can quicly use and learn Python ?

3)
Under http://py.vaults.ca
I found code under GPL license so I don't know if I can use some lines 
of code extracted from code I've found over there, for other open source 
code.

Marcello