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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