[General] Canonicalizing mailing list names

[Mike Taylor]

+1 to #1

On Feb 2, 2006, at 4:48 PM, Ted Leung wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> At the moment, our mailing lists are named in a confusing fashion:  we 
> have:
>
> 'dev' -> chandler development
> 'cosmo' -> cosmo development
> 'scooby' -> scooby development
>
> This is a historical artifact of the days when we only had one project 
> -- and those days are long gone.  So I'd like to propose that we 
> rename the mailing lists is a way that is more indicative of their 
> purpose.   Here are two possible schemes:
>
> 1. all lists are <list>@osafoundation.org, and we prefix each list by 
> the name of the project
> dev -> chandler-dev at osafoundation.org
> cosmo -> cosmo-dev at osafoundation.org
> scooby -> scooby-dev at osafoundation.org
>
> When we need end-user mailing lists (and we will):
>
> chandler-user at osafoundation.org
> cosmo-user at osafoundation.org
> scooby-user at osafoundation.org
>
> general at osafoundation.org would remain the same.
>
> 2. all lists are list at project.osafoundation.org
>
> dev -> dev at chander.osafoundation.org
> cosmo -> dev at cosmo.osafoundation.org
> scooby -> dev at scooby.osafoundation.org
>
> the end user lists would be:
>
> user at chandler.osafoundation.org
> user at cosmo.osafoundation.org
> user at scooby.osafoundation.org
>
> general at osafoundation.org would remain the same.
>
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