On Jan 2, 2020, at 3:47 PM, Mike King <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> ...suspected administrivia! (not sure what that is -
> I guess it's a US English word but it's certainly not an English one).
It’s not defined in any of the mainstream dictionaries I have on my phone —
three of them, because I’m a word nerd — but it’s only a matter of time before
it’s added.
It’s appeared five times in the Corpus of Contemporary American English since
2001, and that’s a lagging indicator of usage in the wider culture:
https://www.english-corpora.org/coca/
The term was commonly used at the high water mark of Usenet, the mid 1990s.
There are 156 hits on faqs.org, which serves the old Usenet FAQs.
There’s a crowdsourced definition here, which is correct by my understanding of
the term:
https://www.wordnik.com/words/administrivia
…but to drag this back on topic for the mailing list, the definition that
matters is this one:
https://mailman.readthedocs.io/en/latest/src/mailman/rules/docs/administrivia.html
You’d have to tell us the subject you sent twice before for us to tell you
which GNU Mailman administrivia rule you got caught by.
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