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

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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