Phil Hudson <phil.hud...@iname.com> writes: > On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 at 10:34:32 am BST, Phil Hudson <phil.hud...@iname.com> > wrote: > >> The term "mail alias" itself seems to me to be poorly chosen,
> Replying to myself... I've thought of one, namely Gnus' use of "group" > (meaning/derived from "newsgroup") for what most MUAs call "mailbox", > "folder" or "label". So... how about substituting "mailing-list" for > "mail-alias" throughout? > > Both "list" and "group" lose the sense that "alias" has of being > applicable to either an individual or a group. Maybe that's a reason for > keeping "mail-alias". > > Now I'm leaning toward declaring a matching *-mailing-list-* (Lisp) > alias for each *-mail-alias-* declaration, without declaring anything > obsolete. I would add " (that is, a mailing list)" or the moral > equivalent to each occurrence of "mail alias" in the doc strings. > > This is tricky stuff. I don't want to make things worse with an > ill-considered change. Maybe I should let it drop for now. Terminological changes can be tricky, and seem to provoke very long threads on other emacs-related groups! I think Eric's suggestion/hint/encouragement about a bbdb(3) manual is probably the answer, but I'm not remotely qualified to tackle such a thing. I find that Google plus a certain amount of grubbing round in the source code usually get me there. atb Glyn ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
