On 2/13/2010 8:14 AM, Steve Holden wrote:
Gmane is primarily a news (NNTP-based) service, though for reasons best know to the organizers they choose to rename the standard newsgroups to fit their own idea of how the universe should be organized, so there the group becomes gmane.comp.python.general.
As I understand the site, the last I read a year or two ago, gmane is a technical mailinglist-to-news gateway. It does not mirror newsgroups, standard or not. It only mirrors lists such as python-list, not newsgroups, such comp.lang.python. In doing so, it organizes the lists into categories like g.comp.python, which has about 200 subgroups mirroring 200 python lists.
-- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
