[meta-sig] Retired SIGS, SIG ownership

[Deirdre Saoirse Moen]

>[Guido]
>>  Please not digicool.  SF sounds just about perfect!
>
>Sorry, but this seems driven by passing on the maintenance burdens to
>"somebody else", not by what's best for the communities served by the mailing
>lists.  The Geocrawler archive facilities are horrid compared to
>python.org's, or even to egroup's/Yahoo's:
>
>+ infrequently and sporadically updated

You forgot --  Sourceforge list archives are frequently not available 
at 2-3 hour stretches. Ugh. Most frequently when I need them too it 
seems.

>Since the *real* problem is that python.org hasn't been actively maintained
>in a year, and there's no way to open maintenance up to the community now,
>the real solution lies in addressing the latter.

Agreed.


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