> Did you consider using mozilla.development.* instead of mozilla.dev.*?
Yes.
:-)
> Microsoft uses the latter, and IMO, this is wise, because "dev" might
> not be known by *users* as abbrev. for "devlopment". Since all this
> renaming is caused by the try to keep users away, we should consider it.
> We can abbrev. m.d.foo, if we refer to those groups.
The longer they are, the more you run into UA display problems. Yes, I
know Mozilla handles this gracefully, but... ;-) I think making the names
any longer (and they are already really quite long, because of the
categorisation) would be a mistake. In fact, I was pushing earlier for
moz.dev.*, but was overruled.
Incidentally, what would be better is if when Netscape reorganise their
news hierarchy, they use "web-dev" or "web-developers" (as we are) instead
of "dev" for the web developer newsgroups.
Gerv
