On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 03:25:14PM -0700, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
> At 4:18 PM -0400 6/30/99, Stan Ryckman wrote:
> >I did comment on
> > these issues to the list-header mailing list some time ago. I agreed
> > with the consensus there that we don't need YetAnotherRegistryForThings,
> > but there are ways not to use the domain name directly either.
>
> But without a registry, how do you set up uniqueness?
If the purpose is just to assist users in filtering mail into their
mailboxes, uniqueness may not be important. It may even be
counterproductive.
Many of our lists are duplicated at other sites. We even duplicate a
few of our own. (List admins can be *so* juvenile sometimes.) The
admins surely would be offended if [EMAIL PROTECTED] had
the same "list ID" as [EMAIL PROTECTED] or
[EMAIL PROTECTED] But whether the list admins are
offended is irrelevant if it helps the users filter their mail more
easily, which supposedly was the purpose of a generic "list id" in the
first place.
This is not to say that I think a domain-nonspecific list ID would be
a useful thing. It sounds sort of silly to me. But I don't think
that uniqueness is necessarily the problem.
--
Regards,
Tim Pierce
RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative
system obfuscator and hack-of-all-trades
