[Foundation-l] To -l or not to -l?

[David Gerard]

On 12/09/2007, Sean Whitton <sean at silentflame.com> wrote:

> Some time ago it was posted onto this list that the Wikimedia mailing
> lists had been moved onto lists.wikimedia.org and, if I recall
> correctly, we were told that we should stop using -l on the end (of
> new lists) as this distinction didn't make sense anymore. When I
> created the ComProj mailing list, I just requested comproj@
> However, I am noticing that a lot of new lists are being created with
> -l. Yes, it is tempting, it is very much in my head to... but is there
> a consensus of which way to go? It seems to me that we should do one
> thing or the other. Or am I missing something?


I see nothing wrong myself with -l on list names. It reminds people
we're talking about a list.


- d.