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Well, once again I have a differing of opinion. :D* I'll outline the problem, proposed solutions and maybe I can get a consensus from some of you? Problem: Help/contacts.html.fr refers to a non-existant mailing list, (as far as I know) @@@SHORT_NAME@@@-admin. I think everyone agrees that the "admin" should be replaced with "conseil", but here are the options for resolving the other issues: 1) Use only "conseil" as the mailing list name. - This is my personal favorite, but only because it requires the least amount of work. :) 2) Use @@@SHORT_NAME@@@-conseil. - Robert does not think this is proper, which leads us to proposed: 3) Use conseil-@@@SHORT_NAME@@@. - This isn't bad. Of course, we'll have to change the english version to point to a valid mailing list as well, (the english version of Help/contacts.html points to @@@SHORT_NAME@@@-board which does not exist either). 4) Use conseil-@@@ABBREV@@@. I feel that Ed's comment, (see below) about keeping different VCN's separate is quite valid, so using @@@ABBREV@@@ may cause trouble later on. -------- That's the options, here's the mail messages I recieved: >From Ed Dyer: > > IMHO ;-) we should stick with the longer version, in order to provide > correct support for VCN's which the site might in future host. > > By the way, that's seven "@"'s in a row (3 trailing, a real @, then 3 > leading for the next variable to make a correct mailing address.) > > Ed Dyer aa146@chebucto.ns.ca (902) H 826-7496 CCN Assistant Postmaster >From Robert Cormier: > > > > > > I see. It is because we usually refer to it as "conseil d'administration" > > > and "conseil" alone is less usual. There is another problem with the words > > > order: > > > > > > The sequence should be: > > > > > > conseil-@@@SHORT_NAME@@@@@@@MAILHOST@@@ > > > >From Landon Boyd: > > It may be worth noting that an @@@ABBREV@@@ variable gets set which > is similar to the @@@SHORT_NAME@@@ except that it's lower case, and > must be all one word. eg. > > SHORT_NAME=CCN > ABBREV=ccn > > > In the case of conseil, you would probably want conseil-@@@ABBREV@@@. I hope this shows where we stand on this problem. I realize it doesn't seem like all that large a problem, but changing a mail alias will require more than just editing the aliases file, I will also have to check for references to it in the documentation. I'm not going to go through another situation like the icon problem. :D* I'd welcome votes, suggestions, help, etc. -- James Fifield <fifield@ug.cs.dal.ca> CSuite Technical Staff
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