En Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:23:57 -0300, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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