On Fri, 7 Aug 2015, Stephen LaPorte wrote:
Hi all,
I wanted to make a proposal for the list: let's rename the Advocacy Advisory Group (advocacy_advisors@lists.wikimedia.org) to publicpolicy@lists.wikimedia.org. It's not a big change, but I think that it's more accurate since the list includes expert discussions of public policy that are not always limited to advocacy actions.
I am already on some other mailing list that use the "publicpolicy" name, so the terms becomes pretty generic. At least this one stood out (and I live it having it in my "main" inbox).
I think that the challenge of renaming the archives (so that old links work etc.), reconfiguring filters for those who use them is not worth really worth it.
I really love gmane.org, the alternative archive of the mailing lists:
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.advocacy-advisors
They do not support renaming (so the list will stay under the old name) and it would be good to take extra steps so that the gmane.org archive continues to work, if the name will be changed indeed.
I believe that technical issues can be overcome (tech guys did excellent work before during the famous foundation-l move), but I really don't mind using the old name, as when somebody tells me "remeber that post on the public policy mailing list?" I don't have to ask "which one?".
~Marcin