My thunderbir cant connect to comp.lang.python as the python.org page
saying.

He, Aspk <aspk88@gmail.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> My thunderbir cant connect to comp.lang.python as the python.org page
> saying.[/color]

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.

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Ben Finney wrote:
[color=blue]
> 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.[/color]

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.

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Ben Finney wrote:
[color=blue]
> <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.[/color]

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/

(quick instructions: point the newsreader to "news.gmane.org",
and look for the group "gmane.comp.python.general".)

</F>

On 2005-08-11, Fredrik Lundh <fredrik@pythonware.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> Ben Finney wrote:
>[color=green]
>> <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.[/color]
>
> 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/[/color]

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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"Grant Edwards" <grante@visi.com> wrote in message
news:11fmnpj6571j1ae@corp.supernews.com...[color=blue]
> On 2005-08-11, Fredrik Lundh <fredrik@pythonware.com> wrote:[color=green]
>> 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/[/color]
>
> 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.[/color]

Yes, but it works. I use gmane for c.l.p mostly because I also use it for
other Python lists that are *not* gatewayed to a Usenet group, I far prefer
the newsgroup interface, and I like having all Python groups together in
one block in the side-bar. At one time, my newserver access was also less
dependable than Gmane and switching back and forth was a nuisance.

Terry J. Reedy