Is it a newsgroup or a list?

[Zachary Ware]

On Sunday, June 7, 2015, <random832 at fastmail.us> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 7, 2015, at 05:06, Luca Menegotto wrote:
> > Il 07/06/2015 10:22, Cecil Westerhof ha scritto:
> >  > That only times the function. I explicitly mentioned I want both the
> >  > needed time AND the output.
> >  >
> >  > Sadly the quality of the answers on this list is going down....
> >
> > First of all, thank God it's a newsgroup, not a list.
> ...
> > --
> > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>
> I've always thought of this as a list that is mirrored to a newsgroup,
> not a newsgroup that is mirrored to a list. What is the true nature of
> python-list (and others such as python-ideas)? What is it primarily,
> what was it first, etc?
>

I believe the most accurate answer to the question in the subject is "yes".

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Zach


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