Re: [Origami] The O-list and Origami-L?

[Anne LaVin]

On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 3:09 PM Gerardo @neorigami.com 
wrote:

> I have had this confusion for years, but only now I dare to ask. I was a
> bit embarrassed for not knowing.
>
> What is the O-list and Origami-L? I think they are mailing lists. Am I
> right? Is this very list one or the other? Is one of them an older and now
> closed mailing list? Are they two different names of the same mailing list?
> If so, what caused the creation of two names or a single list?
>

They're just nicknames for this mailing list; they evolved over time, as
the list moved between hosting services and the like.

Not entirely sure where "o-list" came from (though it's certainly the kind
of thing I'd come up with, maybe I'm to blame?); but "Origami-L" is from
the far distant past when the list was run on the MIT mainframe with
software called LISTSERV, and it was customary to label lists with
{something}-L.

Hope that's useful! You should have asked sooner!  :)

Anne

[Origami] The O-list and Origami-L?

[Gerardo @neorigami.com]

I have had this confusion for years, but only now I dare to ask. I was a
bit embarrassed for not knowing.

What is the O-list and Origami-L? I think they are mailing lists. Am I
right? Is this very list one or the other? Is one of them an older and now
closed mailing list? Are they two different names of the same mailing list?
If so, what caused the creation of two names or a single list?

I hope I can finally know *: )*


Thank you in advance.

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