[Yanel-dev] subject line prefix

[Josias Thöny]

On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 11:26 +0100, Michael Wechner wrote:
> Josias Thöny wrote:
> 
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I changed the subject line prefix from [Yanel-development] to
> >[Yanel-dev], because the former one is too long and I was not able to
> >see the real subject anymore in my mail reader.
> >
> >If there are any objections I'm open to a discussion.
> >  
> >
> 
> fine with me, but I think it's important to understand why we did it in 
> the first
> place.
> 
> dev could stand for development or developer, but there is huge 
> difference between these
> two terms. development is a topic and developer is a group.
> 
> The mailing list is about the topic development and NOT about the group 
> developer.
> 
> Very important to know and understand!
> 
> This is why we used the whole word "development" to make this clear.

I didn't know that, thanks for the explanation.

josias

> 
> Cheers
> 
> Michi
> 
> >Quote of the mailman information about the subject line prefix:
> >
> >"This text will be prepended to subject lines of messages posted to the
> >list, to distinguish mailing list messages in in mailbox summaries.
> >Brevity is premium here, it's ok to shorten long mailing list names to
> >something more concise, as long as it still identifies the mailing
> >list."
> >
> >josias
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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