[afrinic-announce] Renaming of some afrinic.netmailing lists.

[Mark J Elkins]

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: afrinic-announce-bounces at afrinic.net
> [mailto:afrinic-announce-bounces at afrinic.net] On Behalf Of Antony Cooper
> Sent: 17 January 2007 12:12 PM
> To: AfriNIC
> Cc: policy-wg at afrinic.net; afrinic-discuss at afrinic.net
> 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 <abulley at ghana.com> 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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