Proposal: Disconnect comp.lang.python from python-list

[Chris Green]

Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2021-05-06, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> > Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Pointing a newsreader at news.gmane.io allows one to participate in
> >> the mailing list just fine without using Usenet.
> >> 
> > ???  Surely that *is* using Usenet, at least you're using NNTP which
> > is the Usenet protocol.  What's "not Usenet" about it?
> 
> Usenet was a distributed network of computers that transferred
> articles amongst themselves using various protocols, and provided
> access to readers in various ways (NNTP being one of them).
> 
Usenet *is* still this


> Gmane was not and is not part of that network. It is a single,
> stand-alone machine operating as an email list archiver/gateway that
> provides access to read/post via NTTP.
> 
It is effectively part of Usenet because the mailing lists it hosts
and gateways to its newserver are peered with Usenet.  

I read several gmane 'lists' via usenet, I most certainly don't get
them directly from gmane, I get them from other usenet servers.

-- 
Chris Green
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