what's the exactly newsgroup url of python-list?

Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
Thu Aug 11 02:26:40 EDT 2005


Ben Finney wrote:

> You may be confused.
> 
> <URL:news:comp.lang.python> is a URL to a Usenet newsgroup, as
> evidenced by the 'news:' schema part. If your web browser is
> configured properly to invoke a newsreader (such as Thunderbird) for
> 'news:' URLs, your newsrreader will then attempt to get the
> comp.lang.newsgroup from your default NNTP server.
> 
> python-list is a mailing list.    

There's a relation between them which you're not mentioning, which is 
that all posts to the mailing list are gated to the newsgroup and vice 
versa.  They are not completely unrelated entities.

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