In the list settings, "A mailing list to discsuss team practices in Wikimedia organizations" is the short description for the list, which gets used on the overall lists page (https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo) so folks can can at-a-glance get the gist of a list.
I have no idea why this also gets used as the sender's name, but presumably it's something that mailman (our mailing list software) is doing. This would be a good question to ask about on wikitech-l or of the WMF ops staff (eg in #wikimedia-operations on freenode) since they maintain our lists infrastructure. On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 9:37 AM, James Douglas <jdoug...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > +1 > > I've been manually renaming mailing lists like this in my Gmail contacts, > but it would be convenient if it were done on a global level. > > On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Max Binder <mbin...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> I've been noticing quite a few lists with names like >> >> "A mailing list to discuss team practices in Wikimedia organizations" < >> teampractices@lists.wikimedia.org> >> >> While this isn't a terrible name for these types of lists (as they >> accurately describe the list purpose), giving the email's "name" as a >> sentence results in the first word of the sentence being used by Gmail to >> identify the sender to the email user. In the above case, the list arrives >> in an inbox as sent by "A" instead of the full name. This behavior may vary >> from service to service. >> >> On Gmail, this can get confusing if there are multiple email lists that >> start with the same word. Is anyone aware of a setting to show the full >> sender's name? Else, I think it may be a better convention to name list >> with underscores. In this case, the name could be >> "WMF_Team_Practices_Public." >> >> Thoughts? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> teampractices mailing list >> teampractices@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > teampractices mailing list > teampractices@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices > > -- Arthur Richards Team Practices Manager [[User:Awjrichards]] IRC: awjr +1-415-839-6885 x6687
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