Function attributes [OT]

[Steve Holden]

Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 2/13/2010 8:14 AM, Steve Holden wrote:
> 
>> Gmane is primarily a news (NNTP-based) service, though for reasons best
>> know to the organizers they choose to rename the standard newsgroups to
>> fit their own idea of how the universe should be organized, so there the
>> group becomes gmane.comp.python.general.
> 
> As I understand the site, the last I read a year or two ago, gmane is a
> technical mailinglist-to-news gateway. It does not mirror newsgroups,
> standard or not. It only mirrors lists such as python-list, not
> newsgroups, such comp.lang.python. In doing so, it organizes the lists
> into categories like g.comp.python, which has about 200 subgroups
> mirroring 200 python lists.
> 
That would make more sense. I know that the python.org infrastructure
acts as a gateway between the mailing list and the newsgroup.

regards
 Steve
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