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<P><FONT SIZE=2>These look more like XWindows APIs than mail list names, I agree.<BR>
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-----Original Message-----<BR>
From: board-bounces@lists.osgeo.org on behalf of Markus Neteler<BR>
Sent: Sat 1/6/2007 11:13 AM<BR>
To: OSGeo-Board; Tyler Mitchell (External)<BR>
Cc: <BR>
Subject: [Board] Naming of several mailing lists<BR>
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Dear all,<BR>
<BR>
looking at<BR>
<A HREF="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo</A><BR>
<BR>
I see a couple of inconsistencies and strange names<BR>
for the new lists. Maybe already too late, but maybe<BR>
better now than never:<BR>
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The following lists have an obscure "Mail_" prefix:<BR>
Mail_africa [no description available]<BR>
Mail_announce OSGeo Announcements<BR>
Mail_commits [no description available]<BR>
Mail_discuss OSGeo Foundation Discuss List<BR>
Mail_francophone [no description available]<BR>
Mail_mse-users [no description available]<BR>
Mail_webmap-discuss [no description available]<BR>
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while there are the more reasonable:<BR>
Africa Africa local chapter discussions<BR>
Brasil_commits [no description available]<BR>
Brasil_cvs [no description available]<BR>
Brasil_issues [no description available]<BR>
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- What's the difference between "Mail_africa" and "Africa"?<BR>
- "Mail_announce" could simply be "announce"<BR>
- "Mail_discuss" could simply be "discuss"<BR>
- "Mail_francophone" could simply be "francophone"<BR>
and so forth.<BR>
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The veeery long names are also a bit unfortunate:<BR>
Visibilitycommittee_announce [no description available]<BR>
Visibilitycommittee_dev Visibility Committee Discussion List<BR>
Visibilitycommittee_discuss-de Deutschsprachiges OSGeo Marketing<BR>
Webcommittee_announce [no description available]<BR>
Webcommittee_commits [no description available]<BR>
Webcommittee_dev Discussion and development of OSGeo's web presence<BR>
Webcommittee_issues [no description available]<BR>
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-> Webcom_ and Viscom_? But above "Mail_" prefixes are worse.<BR>
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Finally: Simplyfy this one:<BR>
Www_international-discuss Discussion on how to improve<BR>
international networking<BR>
to "intl-discuss" as before?<BR>
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And:<BR>
Www_news-item<BR>
and<BR>
News_commits<BR>
should probably be made more similar?<BR>
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Sorry for bothering,<BR>
Markus<BR>
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