Glyn Millington <glyn.milling...@gmail.com> writes: > 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.
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