[Board] Re: Naming of several mailing lists

[Tyler Mitchell]

I also wonder if it would be a good time to revisit a few site-wide default settings like autoreject of nonmember posts, file attachment limitations, privacy guards and perhaps address the idea of group moderation and auto generation of unique admin passwords or similar approach.

Any thoughts on this?  I'm just thinking out loud.

Tyler

-----Original Message-----

From: Markus Neteler <neteler.osgeo at gmail.com>
Sent: Sat, 06 Jan 2007 20:13:55 +0100
To: OSGeo-Board <board at lists.osgeo.org>, Tyler Mitchell <tylermitchell at shaw.ca>
Received:  Sat, 06 Jan 2007 11:13:55 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Naming of several mailing lists

Dear all,

looking at
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo

I see a couple of inconsistencies and strange names
for the new lists. Maybe already too late, but maybe
better now than never:

The following lists have an obscure "Mail_" prefix:
  Mail_africa  	[no description available]
  Mail_announce 	OSGeo Announcements
  Mail_commits 	[no description available]
  Mail_discuss 	OSGeo Foundation Discuss List
  Mail_francophone 	[no description available]
  Mail_mse-users 	[no description available]
  Mail_webmap-discuss 	[no description available]

while there are the more reasonable:
  Africa  	Africa local chapter discussions
  Brasil_commits 	[no description available]
  Brasil_cvs 	[no description available]
  Brasil_issues 	[no description available]

- What's the difference between "Mail_africa" and "Africa"?
- "Mail_announce" could simply be "announce"
- "Mail_discuss" could simply be "discuss"
- "Mail_francophone" could simply be "francophone"
and so forth.

The veeery long names are also a bit unfortunate:
  Visibilitycommittee_announce  	[no description available]
  Visibilitycommittee_dev 	Visibility Committee Discussion List
  Visibilitycommittee_discuss-de 	Deutschsprachiges OSGeo Marketing
  Webcommittee_announce 	[no description available]
  Webcommittee_commits 	[no description available]
  Webcommittee_dev 	Discussion and development of OSGeo's web presence
  Webcommittee_issues 	[no description available]

-> Webcom_ and Viscom_? But above "Mail_" prefixes are worse.

Finally: Simplyfy this one:
  Www_international-discuss 	Discussion on how to improve
international networking
to "intl-discuss" as before?

And:
Www_news-item
and
News_commits
should probably be made more similar?

Sorry for bothering,
Markus