[Foundation-l] To -l or not to -l?

Wed Sep 12 21:02:48 UTC 2007

Good. I agree with this - since we can't rename lists, we might as
well put -l on all new lists :)

It has a nice ring to it too. Just thought I'd bring it up for
discussion for clarification.

Sean

On 12/09/2007, Aphaia <aphaia at gmail.com> wrote:
> Agreed with David.
> -ml and -l are traditional list address suffixes which help us to
> notice what they are.
>
> And now our system works well, I think. The lists are remembered in
> their names for years. Renaming may make at least over 600  people to
> change their mail application settings.
>
> On 9/13/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 12/09/2007, Sean Whitton <sean at silentflame.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Some time ago it was posted onto this list that the Wikimedia mailing
> > > lists had been moved onto lists.wikimedia.org and, if I recall
> > > correctly, we were told that we should stop using -l on the end (of
> > > new lists) as this distinction didn't make sense anymore. When I
> > > created the ComProj mailing list, I just requested comproj@
> > > However, I am noticing that a lot of new lists are being created with
> > > -l. Yes, it is tempting, it is very much in my head to... but is there
> > > a consensus of which way to go? It seems to me that we should do one
> > > thing or the other. Or am I missing something?
> >
> >
> > I see nothing wrong myself with -l on list names. It reminds people
> > we're talking about a list.
> >
> >
> > - d.
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