OK - but seeing short names like 'afrinic-rpd' will not convey too much
meaning.
Why not have the four mailing lists named...
afrinic-announce
afrinic-res-pol
afrinic-service
afrinic-spam
The word 'discuss' should not be needed - the purposes of mailing lists
*is* to discuss things. If it should only be for announcements - then
that list will probably be "read-only" anyway.
Bit of a shame that this topic has raised so much chatter - whilst
postings about "how to best allocate IPv6" (kind of a good example of
why the lists are there in the first place) gets so little traffic.
Saul Stein wrote:
I Agree, when one is subscribed to many lists, it can get quite confusing,
most lists do prefix. So, as mentioned, it needs the Afrinic prefix!
Saul
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Antony Cooper
Sent: 17 January 2007 12:12 PM
To: AfriNIC
Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [afrinic-announce] Renaming of some afrinic.netmailing lists.
Dear Ayitey
If you look at the Subject line of the headers to these messages, you
will see that it does not include the "@afrinic.net" part. Hence,
without an "afrinic" prefix to the mailing list's name, there is nothing
to identify it as an AFRINIC message. As has been pointed out by
others, some of us subscribe to many mailing lists. Getting emails from
[announce] or [service] is ambiguous. Getting emails from
[spam-discuss] is an invitation to have them added to a kill file!
Regards
Antony
Ayitey Bulley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2007.01.17 08:59 >>>
Hi,
I disagree, I think the "afrinic" prefix is unnecessary. All the lists
are '@afrinic.net' so we already know the organization we are dealing
with.
So I suggest
announce
resource-policy-discuss
service
spam-discuss
regards
Ayitey
Ernest Byaruhanga (AfriNIC) wrote:
hi Antony,
Antony Cooper wrote the following on 01/12/2007 04:01 PM:
Dear Ernest
I would like to suggest that each mailing list should be prefaced
by
the word 'afrinic', otherwise the names could be ambiguous. Hence:
afrinic-announce
afrinic-resource-policy-discuss
afrinic-service
afrinic-spam-discuss
No problem, if everyone else agrees..
Will we be subscribed automatically to the new lists
yes.
rgds,
ernest.
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