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My thunderbir cant connect to comp.lang.python as the python.org page
saying.
saying.
He said:My thunderbir cant connect to comp.lang.python as the python.org page
saying.
Ben said:You may be confused.
<URL:is a URL to a Usenet newsgroup, as
evidenced by the 'schema part. If your web browser is
configured properly to invoke a newsreader (such as Thunderbird) for
'URLs, your newsrreader will then attempt to get the
comp.lang.newsgroup from your default NNTP server.
python-list is a mailing list.
Ben said:<URL:is a URL to a Usenet newsgroup, as
evidenced by the 'schema part. If your web browser is
configured properly to invoke a newsreader (such as Thunderbird) for
'URLs, your newsrreader will then attempt to get the
comp.lang.newsgroup from your default NNTP server.
footnote: if you have no such server, things won't work.
for an excellent way to read the python mailing list via a news-
reader even if you don't have access to a "real" NNTP server,
see http://gmane.org/
Grant Edwards said:Using an NNTP gateway to a mailing list that's gatewayed to a
Usenet group. That's about like running Cygwin under Windows
under Linux: there are valid reasons to do it, but it always
feels surreal.
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