Subject: Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists, Part 11/14 Newsgroups: news.lists,news.answers From: arielle@taronga.com (Stephanie da Silva) Date: Sat, 19 Nov 1994 12:46:57 GMT Archive-name: mail/mailing-lists/part11 [This is the eleventh of fourteen articles on mailing lists.] Pac Ten Sports Contact: crs@u.washington.edu (Cliff Slaughterbeck) Purpose: The Pac Ten Sports Mailing List is an unmoderated mailing list dedicated to discussing sports of all types which are played competitively within the Pac Ten Athletic Conference. pagan Contact: pagan-request@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu (Stacey Greenstein) Purpose: To discuss the religions, philosophy, etc. of paganism. PAGEMAKER Contact: LISTSERV@INDYCMS.IUPUI.EDU Purpose: The PageMaker listserv is dedicated to the discussion of Desktop Publishing in general, with emphasis on the use of Aldus Pagemaker. The list discusses PageMaker's use on both the PC and Macinotsh realms. The list also maintains an extensive archive of help files that are extremely useful for the modern desktop publisher. Come join us! Subscription requests should go to the following address: LISTSERV@INDYCMS.IUPUI.EDU Subscriptions are in the standard listserv format (send a message SUB PAGEMAKR to the address shown above). Owner: gwp@cs.purdue.edu (Geoff Peters) pal-announce Contact: listserv@wunet.wustl.edu (Richard Conn) Purpose: Announcements concerning the Public Ada Library (PAL), including notices of new releases. The Public Ada Library carries Ada and VHDL source code, documents, and courseware as well as many items of general interest to the software engineering and software reuse communities. To subscribe to this list, send email to the List Server named above. Leave the subject line blank, and place one line in the body of the message: subscribe pal-announce Panic Contact: Panic-Request@gnu.ai.mit.edu Purpose: This is a support group for panic disorders. Discussion involving phobias resulting from panic (Agoraphobia and others). Also a place to meet people who have gone through the disorder as well. paragon-managers Contact: listproc@nas.nasa.gov (machine) jet@nas.nasa.gov (J. Eric Townsend) (human) Purpose: Discussion of administrating the Intel PARAGON line of parallel supercomputers To subscribe, send a message to listproc@boxer.nas.nasa.gov with a *body* of "subscribe paragon-managers your_full_name". paragon-users Contact: listproc@nas.nasa.gov (machine) jet@nas.nasa.gov (J. Eric Townsend) (human) Purpose: Discussion of programming and using the Intel PARAGON line of parallel supercomputers. To subscribe, send a message to listproc@boxer.nas.nasa.gov with a *body* of "subscribe paragon-users your_full_name". Paranoia Contact: listserv@age.cuc.ab.ca Purpose: Discussion of the forthcoming Amiga game from AGE Entertainment Software, "Paranoia". Includes progress reports from the developers and user's questions and comments answered directly, as quickly as possible. To subscribe, send a "Subscribe Paranoia" to listserv@age.cuc.ab.ca. For more information, send a "Help Paranoia" message to listserv@age.cuc.ab.ca. Park Rangers Contact: 60157903@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu (Cynthia Dorminey) Purpose: This list is primarily for anyone working or interested in working as a ranger (general, interpretive, etc.) for the National Park Service (U.S.A.), but rangers from state and county agencies as well as other countries are also welcome. The group discusses numerous topics related to this profession. PARKINSN Contact: listserv@vm.utcc.utoronto.ca Purpose: This is a discussion list for those who have Parkinson's, their caregivers, family members, and anyone else who has an interest in the care or treatment of Parkinson's. Send a regular mail message to: listserv@vm.utcc.utoronto.ca and in the body of the note, use any of the following commands: SUBscribe PARKINSN Yourfirstname Yourlastname (Join the list) UNSUBscribe PARKINSN (Leave the list. Your name is not required) INDex PARKINSN (Get a list of files you can retrieve from the PARKINSN listserver) GET PARKINSN filename (Get a file from the PARKINSN listserver) To communicate with the list manager, send mail to: Barbara Patterson (patterso@fhs.csu.mcmaster.ca) ParNET Contact: parnet-list-request@ben.com (Ben Jackson) Purpose: To discuss the installation, use and modification of ParNET, an Amiga<->Amiga networking program. Please direct comments and questions to parnet-list-owner@ben.com. partners Contact: partners-request@cs.cmu.edu Purpose: To advise the administration of Carnegie Mellon University, through the Vice-President of Human Resources (who reads the list) of developments in Domestic Partnership benefits and make recommendations on CMU policy regarding benefits. Party of Five Contact: salingers-request@wwa.com (David W. Tamkin) Purpose: Discussion of the Fox network television series "Party of Five." pas-lovers Contact: majordomo@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Steven C. Neighorn) Purpose: This list exists for the discussion of the Pro Audio Spectrum family of PC sound cards. To subscribe, send a one-line message to: majordomo@qiclab.scn.rain.com subscribe pas-lovers Name For example: subscribe pas-lovers Darci Chapman Owner: pas-lovers-approval@qiclab.scn.rain.com Patchwork Contact: owner-patchwork@nox.cs.du.edu tsitzlar@nyx.cs.du.edu Purpose: The distribution of original works of poetry and prose. The list is not limited to fiction, however, as anything you wish to share with the list membership is allowed, provided it contains no vulgar or obscene references or language. Pornographic material is not accepted. Selected submissions are archived. To subscribe, send a message to patchwork-request@nox.cs.du.edu with a subject and body of SUBSCRIBE [ADDRESS]. ([ADDRESS] is optional and should be the address you wish to subscribe under, if it is different from the address you use to send the request.) Patterns Mailing List Contact: listserver@alexr.demon.co.uk (Maxine Alexander) Purpose: This list is intended for the exchange of crochet and knitting Patterns. To subscribe to the Patterns List, send email to: listserver@alexr.demon.co.uk Message body should read: SUBSCRIBE PATTERNS yourrealname If you wish to recieve the list in digest format add the line SET PATTERNS digest to the message body Questions should be sent to: PATTERNS-Owner@alexr.demon.co.uk or maxine@alexr.demon.co.uk PB-Cle-Raves (Pittsburgh/Cleveland Raves) Contact: pb-cle-raves-request@telerama.lm.com (Joe LeSesne) Purpose: One of several regional rave-related mailing lists, PB-Cle-Raves covers the Pittsburgh and Cleveland metropolitan areas exclusively. PBL Contact: listserv@eng.monash.edu.au (Roger Hadgraft) Purpose: Announcing an e-mail list for those interested in PBL. The list is an automatic way of keeping in touch with other PBLers in several countries around the world. It is an informal network that allows you to read contributions from others, and to respond to their questions and comments. It is not an archive of published papers. It is most like a conversation between many participants, and consequently, it depends on enthusiastic contributions from all subscribers. Currently there are over 100 subscribers from the USA (50%), Canada (16%), Australia (28%), NZ, UK, etc (the rest). To subscribe, send the following one line e-mail message (as the body of the message, not the Subject: line): sub pbl-list to: listserv@eng.monash.edu.au Send problems to me: roger.hadgraft@eng.monash.edu.au pc532 Contact: pc532-request@bungi.com (Dave Rand) Purpose: a mailing list for people interested in the pc532 project. This is a National Semiconductor NS32532 based system, offered for a very low cost. pcgeos-list Contact: listserv@pandora.sf.ca.us Purpose: Discussion forum for users or potential users of PC/GEOS products, including GeoWorks Ensemble, GeoWorks Pro, GeoWorks POS, and third party products. Topics include general information, tips, techniques, applications, experiences, etc. pci-sig Contact alan@znyx.com (Alan Deikman) Purpose: To provide a forum for discussing technical and marketing information regarding the PCI specification as documented by the PCI Special Interest Group. PCI is the bus technology that is quickly becoming the bus of choice for new computer systems based on all types of processors. SIG membership is not required by is encouraged. Not moderated. Subscribe by sending the keyword "subscribe" in the Subject line of a message to pci-sig-request@znyx.com List software is SmartMail. pd-games Contact: pd-games-request@math.uio.no (Thomas Gramstad) Purpose: pd-games is a mailing list for game theory, especially Prisoner's Dilemma type of problems. Purely technical issues and questions, as well as discussions of specific scientific applications, as well as political and ideological aspects and consequences of game theory are welcome, and it is a hope that the list will contribute towards the goal of elucidating and making known the nature of and the conditions for voluntary and mutual social cooperation. pdp8-lovers Contact: pdp8-lovers-request@mc.lcs.mit.edu (Robert E. Seastrom) Purpose: This mailing list exists in order to facilitate communication and cooperation between owners of vintage DEC computers, specifically, but not limited to, the PDP-8 series of minicomputers. Discussions of all manner of hardware, software, programming techniques are invited. Ownership of an 'antique' computer is not required for membership, but flames from people who feel that anything that is not cutting edge technology is worthless are discouraged. pdx-motss Contact: PDX-MOTSS-REQUEST@agora.rain.com Purpose: Discussion of LGB issues in the Portland, Oregon metro area. pen-pals Contact: pen-pals-request@mainstream.com Purpose: To provide a forum for children to correspond electronically with each other. Hopefully this will help them improve their writing skills in a non-hostile environment. It can serve as a meeting place for them from which they can take their discussions off-line. This list is not moderated, but is monitored for content. Those who misuse the list will be sent e-mail off-line explaining their mis-use and potentially bumped from the list. This list is managed by listproc. 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To subscribe, send mail to mailserver@lists.funet.fi with subscribe phonecard-collectors Firstname Lastname in body of the message. phonestation Contact: majordomo@greatcircle.com Purpose: For discussion of "Telephone - Workstation Integration". The mailing list was formed after the Winter '92 USENIX in response to Stephone Uhler's paper about his "phonestation" project. To subscribe, send mail to majordomo@greatcircle.com the body of the mail (not the subject line) should contain: subscribe phonestation or subscribe phonestation-digest To get to the list maintainer (currently me), mail should be sent to phonestation-owner@greatcircle.com PHOTO-CD Contact: listmgr@info.kodak.com (Don Cox) Purpose: The KODAK Photo-CD Mailing List provides libraries of information on KODAK CD products or technology and closely related products. Information in the library section is posted and maintained by KODAK. The mailing list is an open discussion area to talk with other Internet users interested in our CD technology and products. KODAK will participate in message conversations on occasion. KODAK does not guarantee the accuracy of information passed between mailing list users. PHOTO-CD is a public mailing list. Those who wish to subscribe to it should send mail to the following address: listserv@info.kodak.com with the command SUBSCRIBE PHOTO-CD on a line by itself in the body (and no other text). Substitute your first name and last name where indicated; these will be used to identify you when you submit a message to the list. Your electronic mail address will be derived from this subscription request message. PhotoForum Contact: listserv@listserver.isc.rit.edu The PhotoForum is an educational network and databank established to serve photo educators and the photographic and imaging communities in general, with a communications link to discuss aesthetics, processes instructional strategies, techniques, criticism, equipment, history, electronic imaging, ethics, and other relevant topics especially, but not exclusively, as these apply in educational settings. The list is unmoderated. Members include photography instructors and students, amateur and professional photographers, as well as members of photographic associations and educational institutions worldwide. To subscribe: Send a message to: LISTSERV@LISTSERVER.ISC.RIT.EDU with the following in the text portion of the message: SUBSCRIBE PhotoForum Once subscribed you will be provided with a more comprehensive list of requests you can issue to the listserv@listserver.isc.rit.edu. To contact individuals responsible for managing the list, send mail to Andrew Davidhazy (andpph@rit.edu) or Russell Kraus (rckpph@rit.edu). physics Contact: physics-request@qedqcd.rye.ny.us (Mike Miskulin) Purpose: Physics is a newly created digest to cover current developments in theoretical and experimental physics. Typical topics might include particle physics, plasmaphysics, astrophysics. Discussions related to all branches (large and small) of physics are welcome. picasso-users Contact: picasso-users@postgres.berkeley.edu Purpose: For users of the Picasso graphical User Interface Development System. Pigulka Contact: zielinski@acfcluster.nyu.edu (Marek Zielinski) davep@acsu.buffalo.edu (Dave Phillips) Purpose: Digest on the net news from Poland, in English. Irregular. Pipes Contact: masticol@scr.siemens.com (Steve Masticola) Purpose: The Pipes Mailgroup provides a forum for discussing the moderate use and appreciation of fine tobacco, including cigars, pipes, quality cigarettes, pipe making and carving, snuff, collectible tobacciana, publications, and related topics. The mailgroup is lightly moderated to prevent flame (except for the purpose of lighting up. :-) Pisma Bralcev Contact: Pisma-Bralcev@KRPAN.ARNES.SI (Andrej Brodnik & Srecko Vidmar) Pisma.Bralcev@Uni-LJ.SI Purpose: "Pisma bralcev" is an edited (not moderated) mailing list which provides the possibility of publishing readers' opinions, questions, inquiries for help, answers, etc. There are also published travel tips and book reviews. Anybody can send the letter to the editor and it will be published on the list under his name. The author can request anonymity and it will be respected entirely. The frequency of publishing is about one issue per day or less. The language is originally Slovene, but other languages appear as well. Pittsburgh Penguins Contact: gp2f@andrew.cmu.edu (Gary Patalsky) Purpose: News, info, and discussion about the Pittsburgh Penguins. PJD-L Contact: Listserv@vm.temple.edu Listserv@temple.bitnet Purpose: The Philadelphia Jewish Discusion Group is a forum for the discussion of issues pertaining to Jewish community that lives or works in the Philadelphia area. pkd-list Contact: pkd-list-request@wang.com Purpose: The discussion of the works and life of Philip K. Dick (1928-1982), one of the world's most unusual science fiction writers. Topics include his books and stories, and books and stories about him and his life; however, discussion can (of necessity) branch out into the nature of reality, consciousness and religious experience. playboy Contact: playboy-request@umich.edu Purpose: Whether you're a collector, a fan, or just a casual reader, the Playboy Mailing List has much to offer to the man or woman that reads Playboy, including exciting critial review, intelligent appreciation and examination of the Playboy lifestyle, and of course news about all your favorite Playmates. ;) Please note this is a *discussion* list. The topic at hand is Playboy Magazine and Playboy Enterprises, Inc. Virtually any related topic is appropriate, including, but not limited to: collecting, trade/sale/wanted posts, Playmate discussion, PEI business news, Hef sightings, product reviews (any media), and critical review & analysis. If this sounds like the list for you, send email to playboy-request@umich.edu with the word "subscribe" in the subject header of your msg. Player Pro Users Contact: pp-users-request@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Jamal Hannah) Purpose: A mailing list for Macintosh owners who use the ShareWare program "The Player Pro", by Antoine Rosset , who is also on this list. General discussion of the Amiga "MOD" (music Module) file format is allowed, as well as other "MOD" file players for the Macintosh. The list is also for the reporting of Bugs associated with the Player Pro, and questions are answered related to problems using the program, as well as developer support. playing-cards Contact: playing-cards@cs.man.ac.uk Purpose: This list provides a forum for those wishing to discuss their interests in playing-cards (such as their history, their design and evolution, their manufacture and the games played with them past and present) with fellow enthusiasts. The list also aims to exchange information of meetings and events promoted by the International Playing-Card Society, 52 Plus Joker and other such societies for researchers and collectors. To subscribe, send e-mail to majordomo@cs.man.ac.uk with the command: subscribe playing-cards as the body of the message. playlist Contact: playlist-request@hos.com (Eric S. Theise) Purpose: playlist is a one-way mailing list, primarily for distribution of the weekly playlists from the nationally syndicated radio program, Music from the Hearts of Space. The list will occasionally carry announcements about new releases on Hearts of Space Records, updated lists of the stations that carry the program, touring schedules of HOS artists, and other information of interest to HOS listeners. Hearts of Space playlists will continue to be posted in the USENET newsgroup, rec.music.newage. Playlists and other HOS resources are being made available at hos.com, through gopher and the World-Wide Web. For current information about accessing these and other HOS resources send a message to info@hos.com To subscribe to playlist, simply send the command subscribe in the body of an e-mail message to playlist-request@hos.com plays Contact: plays-approval@world.std.com (Elizabeth Lear Newman) Purpose: This is a mailing list gateway of the newsgroup rec.arts.theatre.plays If you would like to subscribe please e-mail to: majordomo@world.std.com Leave the subject blank and type "subscribe plays" in the text. PNEWS CONFERENCES Contact: Hank Roth Purpose: To provide a cross-fertilization of ALTERNATIVE *LEFT* PROGRESSIVE views, to present positions that challenge prevailing views; and to vehemently oppose chauvinism, sexism, gay bashing, racism, antisemitism, etc. We discuss a myriad of issues in an effort to provide better understanding for root causes and agendas around these issues. These conferences serve to bring *PROGRESSIVES* together as an AFFINITY GROUP for SEEKING JUSTICE and COMMONALITY. We attempt to build SOLIDARITY and a COALITION for peace & justice [though not necessarily a consensus on all matters]. Serves as a conduit for information and articles from *Left* Wing sources. To subscribe: Send request to There are two mailing list conferences, pnews.d-L for discussion] and pnews-L [for articles]. These are part of a network of 5 PNEWS CONFERENCES. You can stipulate either list or both. Poi-Pounders Contact: poi-pounders-request@presto.ig.com (John M. Relph) Purpose: Poi-Pounders is a mailing list for the discussion of the music and records of Poi Dog Pondering (the band). Poi-Pounders is distributed in both "reflector" and "digest" formats. The Poi-Pounders digest is moderated by John Relph. Police Contact: majordomo@xmission.com Purpose: This mailing list is dedicated as a service to keep fans of The Police and its members Sting, Stewart Copeland, and Andy Summers, informed and connected. To subscribe, mail to majordomo@xmission.com, with "subscribe police" for the unmoderated list, or "subscribe police-digest" for the digested version, in the body of the message. Owner: owner-police@xmission.com (Pete Ashdown) POP Contact: pop-request@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Andy S Poling) Purpose: This list was formed, out of desperation for an organized source of information, to discuss the Post Office Protocol (POP2 and POP3 - described in RFCs 918, 937, 1081, and 1082) and implimentations thereof. The driving interest was lack of easily obtained knowledge of available POP2 and POP3 servers and clients. This mailing list is meant to provide this information. Anyone, whether consumer or product provider is invited to participate. porschephiles Contact: porschephiles-request@tta.com Purpose: This list is for people who own, operate, work on or simply lust after various models and years of Porsche automobiles. It's a good place to ask questions, talk about features and functionality, get advice on what to buy -- or for how much -- and in general sort of have a little electronic fellowship around the "driving passion" in our lives. Much like a PCA meeting, only distributed and real-time. This list is currently being run as a mail reflector, sending incoming messages to the whole list, which is currently over 350 people from all over the world. The participants include people with a variety of backgrounds, some very technical, some race/autocross/performance drivers and constructors, some owners, some admiring non-owners. POS302-L Contact: LISTSERV@ILSTU.EDU Purpose: POS302-L is a discussion list created for the "Race, Ethnicity and Social Inequality" seminar offered at Illinois State University in the Spring, 1994 semester. The general purposes of the list are to create an electronic-mail audience for the written work of the students in the course and to invite a broad audience to particpate in the seminar. Subscription to the list can be done by sending the following message to: LISTSERV@ILSTU.EDU SUBSCRIBE POS302-L Your Full Name, Institution POSCIM Contact: markus@uni-bonn.de (Markus Schlegel) Purpose: The Political Sciences Mailing list is intended as a forum of those researching, teaching or studying the subject as well as the practicians of politics. Being a private list, POSCIM tries to be free of the "noises" common to public lists or newsgroups related to politics. Exchange over research programmes and its results, over own projects and the arrangement of special events or congresses are only a few of the various options of communication via POSCIM. To join POSCIM, please contact markus@uni-bonn.de posix-ada Contact: umd5!grebyn!posix-ada-request posix-ada-request@grebyn.com (Karl Nyberg) Purpose: To discuss the Ada binding of the Posix standard. This is the IEEE P1003.5 working group. posix-testing Contact: posix-testing-request@mindcraft.com (Chuck Karish) Purpose: This list will provide a forum for discussion of issues related to testing operating systems for conformance to the various POSIX standards and proposed standards (IEEE 1003.x and whatever derivative standards may emerge from the NIST, ANSI, ISO, and so on). These issues include problems related to test suites in general, testability of various features of the standards, and portability of the test suites to the many very different POSIX implementations we expect to see in the near future. We'll focus on the test suites themselves, rather than on the standards to which they test (notably POSIX p1003.3). Prince Contact: prince-request@icpsr.umich.edu Purpose: The Prince list is devoted to discussing the musician, Prince, and related artists. prion Contact: prion-request@stolaf.edu (Chris Swanson) Purpose: While the main goal of the digest is to provide a resource for researchers working with prions and interested bystanders, all are welcome. All articles posted will be included in the next digest. If a poster feels that his posting is of an urgent nature, it may be distributed sooner than the regular digest. PRL Contact: brewer@ace.enet.dec.com (John Brewer) Purpose: The Pirate Radio SWL list is for the distribution of questions, answers, information and loggings of Pirate Radio Stations. This includes SW stations, MW (AM broadcast) and FM pirates. pro-rkba-democrats Contact: donb@netcom.com Purpose: For liberals/Democrats who support the Second Amendment. profemen Contact: listserv@dawn.hampshire.edu Purpose: It's a list for dicussion of issues that men who label themselves as profemenist face. All genders are welcome. To subscribe: send the message: sub profemen Firstname Lastname to: listserv@dawn.hampshire.edu To unsubscribe: send the message: unsub profemen to: listserv@dawn.hampshire.edu To contact the list administrator, send mail to: jyanowit@orixa.mtholyoke.edu Prog-Pubs Contact: prog-pubs-request@fuggles.acc.virginia.edu Purpose: PROG-PUBS is a mailing list for people interested in progressive and/or alternative publications and other media. PROG-PUBS was originally created to facilitate and encourage communication among people interested in and active with the "alternative student press" movement. However, the list's scope is now broader than this; we welcome and encourage participation from people involved in all kinds of small-scale, independent, progressive and/or alternative media, including newspapers, newsletters, and radio and video shows, whether campus-based or not. Progress Contact: Progress-list-request@math.niu.edu Purpose: Discussion of the Progress RDBMS. project-management Contact: project-management-request@smtl.demon.co.uk Purpose: The aim of the list is to discuss project management techniques generally, not just project management software and programmes. You can join the list by sending email to project-management-request@smtl.demon.co.uk with the subject line of "subscribe". proml Contact: majordomo@dithots.dithots.org Purpose: This mail list is for the discussion and plans of the Papyrus Racing Organization. The PRO Series is a gathering of individuals who've designed a competitive series using the Papyrus IndyCar racing simulation (the #1 race sim)! It can be used to discuss setups, tracks, speeds, performance, tuning, or any other aspect of the PRO series only. To subscribe to the list, send mail to: majordomo@dithots.dithots.org where the body of the message is: help subscribe proof-users Contact: proof-request@xcf.berkeley.edu (Craig Latta) Purpose: To discuss the left-associative natural language parser 'proof'. To join, email proof-request@xcf.berkeley.edu with the subject line "add me". psu-football Contact: psu-football-request@pond.com Purpose: Discussion of and distribution of news about Penn State University Football (American Football) for alumni, fans, and friends of Penn State football. PSYCHE-D Contact: x91007@pitvax.xx.rmit.edu.au (Patrick Wilken) Purpose: PSYCHE-D is a moderated discussion group dedicated to supporting an interdisciplinary exploration of the nature of consciousness and its relation to the brain. Relevant perspectives are expected to come from, among others, the disciplines of Cognitive Science, Philosophy, Psychology, Neuroscience, Physics, Artificial Intelligence and Anthropology. To subscribe, just send the following command to : SUBSCRIBE PSYCHE-D YourFirstName YourLastName PSYCHE-L Contact: x91007@pitvax.xx.rmit.edu.au (Patrick Wilken) Purpose: The purpose of the list is to distribute the journal PSYCHE (ISSN: 1039-723X). This is a refereed electronic journal dedicated to supporting the interdisciplinary exploration of the nature of consciousness and its relation to the brain. PSYCHE publishes material relevant to that exploration from the perspectives afforded by the disciplines of Cognitive Science, Philosophy, Psychology, Physics, Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence and Anthropology. Interdisciplinary discussions are particularly encouraged. Subscriptions to the electronic version of PSYCHE may be initiated by sending the following one-line message to : SUBSCRIBE PSYCHE-L YourFirstName YourLastName Python Contact: python-list-request@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum) Purpose: The list is intended for discussion of and questions about all aspects of design and use of the Python programming language. This is an object-oriented, interpreted, extensible programming language. The source of the latest Python release is always available by anonymous ftp from ftp.cwi.nl, in directory /pub/python. 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