I'm certainly not brave enough to attempt to change it, but I have often been bothered
by the terminology. Subscriber is the exact right word in this case, member or
employee might be a good fit, but then again, they might not. I have lists in which
member, employee, and stockholder would be ap
On Tuesday 16 July 2002 11:09, Bob Weissman wrote:
> This is a linguistic subtlety in the English version of Mailman.
[...]
> In my own Mailman 2.0.11 installation, I've scoured the sources for
> user-visible strings and changed "member" to "subscriber" everywhere
> I thought it was important. I w
This is a linguistic subtlety in the English version of Mailman.
Maliman refers to list subscribers as "members," for example when rejecting a post
from a "non-member" to a "members-only" list. This terminology is confusing in some
circumstances. Here's why.
I run lists for a professional, non
