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Subject: Re: Be famous :-) and help other list owners: send me your tips
From: mmorse @ nsf . gov (Michael H. Morse)
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 1994 09:10:38 EDT
To: Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetilho @ ifi . uio . no>, list-managers @ greatcircle . com, majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com, unix-listproc @ avs . com
In-reply-to: Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetilho@ifi.uio.no> "Re: Be famous :-) and help other list owners: send me your tips" (Sep 6, 11:59pm)


> There are currentlyso many possible addresses to use for requests:
> listserv, listproc, majordomo, intermail, foo-request to name a few.
> Only one of these naming conventions is software independent, so I
> think we should try to make "foo-request" the norm.

There's no question that what you suggest is the better, more elegant,
more "correct" approach.  But what's happening in the real world is
that list managers are using the software name as the address, and
folks are writing books announcing it, and users are learning what
commands to use for each software, and others are writing front ends
that know what commands to use for each software, and for a few folks
to try to change it at this time is just, forgive the expression,
pissing into the wind.

--Mike


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