The pipermail archives go back to April 1999. Maybe that's when python-dev split off python-list? https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/
Scroll to the end to see April 1999, and it seems python-dev was fresh then: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/1999-April/095127.html (There's one April 1995 entry, but it appears a misfiled rant from Linus Torvalds. :-) On Wed, Jan 1, 2020 at 8:24 AM Skip Montanaro <skip.montan...@gmail.com> wrote: > I could swear python-dev was older than late April 1999, yet that's as far > back as the MM3 archives go. As evidence, here's an email from Jack Jansen > on 28 April 1999 which was a reply to an earlier message not present in the > current archive: > > > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/thread/EMH62JYFLIL5FJ3EPOKX3NKCPCO3TCPH/ > > Any pointers to older messages appreciated... > > Skip > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/WQGRVOSTETPCN3CK4PMS5XBN67VQRLLN/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) *Pronouns: he/him **(why is my pronoun here?)* <http://feministing.com/2015/02/03/how-using-they-as-a-singular-pronoun-can-change-the-world/>
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