Re: perl6-community (was RE: Obscuring code? -- should the Perl system require code to be distributed as source?)

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On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 02:28:59PM -0400, John Porter wrote:
>Jonas Liljegren wrote:
>> 
>> Perhaps perl6-community?
>
>Or p6-culture.
>
>Btw, there's a pattern in the naming of the lists, nicht wahr?
>
>	p6-*	: lists for the makers of Perl6.
>
>	perl6-*	: lists for the users of Perl6.
>
>Thus
>	p6-announce	: announcements of new elists or RFCs, etc.
>
>	perl6-announce	: announcements of new versions of Perl6
>			  or adjuncts thereto

Ugh.  This causes unnecessary confusion.  If you're going to separate
things in this way, call them perl6-user-announce and
perl6-devel-announce, for $DEITY's sake.

Naming is *really* important. Really really important.  A misnamed list
can cause problems that go on for years.  I've seen it happen, I've
*caused* it to happen, and I've learnt from my experiences.  Please take
my word on this.

K.

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