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From: tytso@athena.mit.edu (Theodore Ts'o)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: COPS in perl?
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Date: 10 Jan 91 02:23:59 GMT
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   From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
   Date: 9 Jan 91 23:34:38 GMT

   Yes, that's exactly what I was saying before! I really do think that
   ``The Perl Users Group'' would be a much, much better name than
   ``comp.lang.perl'' to attract new people to the Perl community.....

I've got news for you: do you know how I read this mailing list?  It
comes to me in the following form:

|Subject: Perl-Users Digest #436
|From: Digestifier <Perl-Users-Request@virginia.edu>
|To: Perl-Users@virginia.edu
|Reply-To: Perl-Users@virginia.edu
|
|Date:     Thu, 18 Oct 90 16:14:52 EDT
|
|Perl-Users Digest #436, Volume #1                Thu, 18 Oct 90  16:14:52 EDT

This mailing list started as a the "Perl Users mailing list".  Then when
it got widely popular, it got gatewayed to Usenet.  Someone picked the
name comp.lang.perl.  If you want to change the name of the Usenet group
on the other end of the Mail/News gateway to something stupid like
comp.perl.users.group, go ahead and post the proposal to news.groups and
stop wasting bandwith here.  Personally, I think it doesn't matter what
we call it in Usenet land --- with the possible exception of Dan
Berstein, we all understand what sort of mailing list/group this is and
what we expect out of it.  And with the possible exception of Dan
Berstein, we're all more or less happy with it.  (Except that I'm
getting tired of these endless arguments about what is and is not
acceptable in this group.)

Now.  Can we please stop the meta-postings?

						- Ted