proposal: new list: microformats-rest (was Re: [microformats-discuss] REX! Re: REST-discuss list, naming)

Dr. Ernie Prabhakar drernie at opendarwin.org
Fri Oct 21 18:43:35 PDT 2005


Well, "mf-discuss" would match more of my other lists, but as long as  
we're abbreviating I'd suggest:

mf-disc
mf-ann
mf-rest

"dis" seems a bit negative. :-)
-- Ernie P.

On Oct 21, 2005, at 6:25 PM, Ryan King wrote:

>
> On Oct 21, 2005, at 5:34 PM, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote:
>> P.S.  Do we *really* have to use the full name as the list prefix?  
>> In my poor email client, "Re: [microformats-discuss] " takes up  
>> most of my Subject column.  I'd be happier with 'mf-rest' as the  
>> prefix (if not the list name).  Of course, I still prefer the name  
>> "RESTafarians." :-)
>
> No, we don't. This actually bothers me everyday, but I keep  
> forgetting to ask everyone about it.
>
> Does anyone object to shortening the prefixes?
>
> Proposal:
> * [microformats-discuss]
>     * [mf-dis]
>     * [mdiscuss]
>     * [mdis]
> * [microformats-announce]
>     * (follow same convention as used above)
>
> Thoughts? I want feedback because this is likely to break lots of  
> people's filtering rules.
>
> -ryan
>
> --
> Ryan King
> ryan at technorati.com
>
>
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