[General] Canonicalizing mailing list names

Pieter Hartsook hartsook at osafoundation.org
Tue Feb 21 15:42:28 PST 2006


 announce at osafoundation.org, used for organizational statement-of-record
type posts should also remain the same. I'd also suggest we deprecate the
process list.

Pieter

On 2/21/06, Ted Leung <twl at osafoundation.org> wrote:
>
> So it looks like the preference is for style number one.  I'll start
> talking to IT about changing the list names.
>
> Ted
>
> On Feb 2, 2006, at 1:48 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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