Received: by nummer-3.proteosys id <01C19443.A9CFE1CC@nummer-3.proteosys>; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 11:44:47 +0100 Return-Path: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C19443.A9CFE1CC" x-vm-v5-data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil][nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil "^From:" nil nil nil]) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 x-vm-vheader: ("Date:" "Resent-Date:" "From:" "Sender:" "Resent-From" "Originally-From:" "Originally-To:" "To:" "Apparently-To:" "Cc:" "Subject:") nil x-vm-bookmark: 21 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: list name change Date: Wed, 6 May 1992 11:25:30 +0100 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Frank Mittelbach" Sender: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" To: "Rainer M. Schoepf" Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 704 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C19443.A9CFE1CC Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable When I mentioned that we probably had made a mistake by not changing the list name before opening up the list it was more stating a fact then thinking that this could be corrected. The name of the list is by now distributed so widely and appears in several articles which are already published or are about to be publish that I fear any name change comes to late. After all the idea is to give people interested a possibility to participate in the discussion and development and so switching to a new hidden name will not do. > I am sorry for causing all this uproar. But following the heated = discussion > I just want to point out that LISTSERV explains LATEX-L as a socalled > "LaTeX-L Mailing list". People who see this comment and join the > list can never guess that this is only meant for those who want to = contribute > to the development of LaTeX3. So I would propose to leave the listname > as it is but change the explanation to something like > "discussion aiming at the development of latex3.0". P. Stahl hits the point exactly and I think that his advice changing the bitnet description will help. After all, all helpful messages about new names has given us a bonus on messages unrelated to the real subject aready. So we should follow his suggestion and change the description as well as > Wishing us all a good discussion and let us return to what is = important I wish everybody the same. cheers Frank Mittelbach ------_=_NextPart_001_01C19443.A9CFE1CC Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: list name change

When I mentioned that we probably had made a mistake = by not changing
the list name before opening up the list it was more = stating a fact
then thinking that this could be corrected. The name = of the list is by
now distributed so widely and appears in several = articles which are
already published or are about to be publish that I = fear any name
change comes to late. After all the idea is to give = people interested
a possibility to participate in the discussion and = development and so
switching to a new hidden name will not do.

> I am sorry for causing all this uproar. But = following the heated discussion
> I just want to point out that LISTSERV explains = LATEX-L as a socalled
> "LaTeX-L Mailing list". People who see = this comment and join the
> list can never guess that this is only meant for = those who want to contribute
> to the development of LaTeX3. So I would propose = to leave the listname
> as it is but change the explanation to something = like
> "discussion aiming at the development of = latex3.0".

P. Stahl hits the point exactly and I think that his = advice changing
the bitnet description will help.  After all, = all helpful messages
about new names has given us a bonus on messages = unrelated to the real
subject aready. So we should follow his suggestion = and change the
description as well as

> Wishing us all a good discussion and let us = return to what is important

I wish everybody the same.


cheers

Frank Mittelbach

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