Terry Reedy wrote: > 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. > That would make more sense. I know that the python.org infrastructure acts as a gateway between the mailing list and the newsgroup.
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