[afrinic-announce] Renaming of some afrinic.net mailing lists.

[Ayitey Bulley]

Hi Antony,

I was just referring to the name of the list. The subject can have the 
[afrinic-xxx] prefix, it can be configured independently the default is 
usually the list name.

regards
Ayitey

Antony Cooper wrote:
> 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.
> 
>