Ben Finney wrote: > <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.
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> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
