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[Terry Reedy]

"Duncan Booth" <duncan.booth at invalid.invalid> wrote in message 
news:Xns9A9EA1FF16358duncanbooth at 127.0.0.1...
| I also recommend Gmane which provides a free news server for most mailing
| lists: mailing lists are a lot more manageable when gatewayed into a news
| server. If you just want to access comp.lang.python I think you'll find 
the
| mailing list to which it is connected is available for free on Gmane.

gmane.comp.python.general

which is where I am answering this from.  Works great.