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[Paul Moore]

On Tue, 03 Apr 2001 16:44:55 GMT, "Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik at pythonware.com>
wrote:

>Paul Moore wrote:
>> Fair enough. If that is the case, then a Python-Windows SIG would be a
>> better option, as it fits the existing infrastructure.
>
>Friday 20-Jun-1997 the Pythonwin-SIG was decommissioned.  Mark
>Hammond, the list's owner, describes it this way (slightly reformatted):
>
>    In a nutshell, we are going to shut down Pythonwin-sig so the
>    traffic moves back to the main Python newsgroup.  The main reasons
>    for this are:
[...]

Gosh, yes. I remember this now. Was it really that long ago?

I think that says it all really. If there is a genuine need for a split (I
don't believe so personally) then splitting comp.lang.python is the best way
forward.

Paul.