Ben Finney wrote: > You may be confused. > > <URL:news:comp.lang.python> is a URL to a Usenet newsgroup, as > evidenced by the 'news:' schema part. If your web browser is > configured properly to invoke a newsreader (such as Thunderbird) for > 'news:' URLs, your newsrreader will then attempt to get the > comp.lang.newsgroup from your default NNTP server. > > python-list is a mailing list.
There's a relation between them which you're not mentioning, which is that all posts to the mailing list are gated to the newsgroup and vice versa. They are not completely unrelated entities. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM erikmaxfrancis Make it come down / Like molasses rain -- Sandra St. Victor -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
