Finally had to plonk google gorups.

[Terry Reedy]

"Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar> wrote in message 
news:op.t9wfj5k0x6zn5v at a98gizw.cpe.telecentro.net.ar...
En Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:23:57 -0300, Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> 
escribió:
> Torsten Bronger wrote:

>> The admistrative overhead of mailing lists is tedious.  Fortunately,
>> most important computer-related lists are on gmane.org.  We could
>> list c.l.py there, too.  ;-)
>>
> c.l.py has been on gmane for years, as comp.python.general (why they
> have to have their own naming hierarchy i have never understood).

Because "someone" chose that name when he/she asked for the list to be 
added; the name gmane.comp.lang.python *could* have been used, but wasn't.
(gmane uses its own hierarchy because not all mirrored lists exist as a 
newsgroup outside gmane, and there are potential name conflicts)
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Gmane mirror mailing lists, not usenet newsgroups.  There are over 200 
gmane.comp.python.* groups.  As far as I know, only 2 are also regular 
newsgroups. c.l.p, and c.l.p.announce. and those only because they are 
first gatewayed to python.org mailing lists.  In other words, 
gmane.comp.python.general mirrors python-list @ python.org