Re: Mailing lists and stuff...

* Reiner Steib (2005-03-22) writes:

> On Fri, Mar 18 2005, David Kastrup wrote:
>
>> Reiner Steib <[email protected]> writes:
> [...]
>>> [email protected]          gmane.emacs.auctex.general
>>
>> or just                   gmane.emacs.auctex
>>
>> I think that we should try to set up a structure that would be
>> customary on Usenet.  
>
> IIRC Gmane's policy prefers the former, AFAIK.

,----[ <URL:http://article.gmane.org/gmane.discuss/1297> ]
| For instance, if there is a gmane.foo group, and a
| gmane.foo.something, then gmane.foo should be moved to
| gmane.foo.general, and so on.
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,----[ <URL:http://gmane.org/faq.php> ]
| I wanted the group to be called gmane.comp.fabuloze.haczkers, but you
| called it gmane.comp.cms.fabuloze.devel.
| 
| Yes. We try to give group names that are logical and consistent, so
| that Gmane users can find the relevant groups. In particular, this
| means that "-dev", "-devel", "-development", "-hackers" and the like
| all become ".devel"; "-help" and "-users" become ".general" or
| ".user", depending on how many lists there are; and "-svn", "-commits"
| and the like become ".cvs".
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Ralf