On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 02:25:59PM +0100, David Wright wrote:
1) Why doen't we have a language marker for the default? That would make things more consistent, and if somebody sees a list full of DE, CN, FR mailing lists and starts searching for EN they are going to be out of luck - although most people probably aren't that dumb. Also stops any question of English elitism, unless you are proposing the default groups are in German, or Flemish (hi houghi ;-P).
Yes, make a EN as well. Oh and Flemish is not a language, it is a group of dialects. If we get Flemish, we should get also Plat-Duutsch, Beirisch and Östereichish. (The last two are the same, but don't tell them that, because the inhabitants think they are not, because they are better then the other. :)
2a) Having the language as a prefix should make the list more readable, having a 2 digit code, followed by a project, followed by a topic means only the domain name part looks ragedy, the begginning of the rest of the items is nicely formatted:
Yes. Full ACK. Also much better once they are on gmane. houghi -- There was a young girl from Hong Kong Whose cervical cap was a gong. She said with a yell, As a shot rang her bell, "I'll give you a ding for a dong!"