[MPlayer-DOCS] CVS: main/DOCS/xml/en bugreports.xml, 1.10, 1.11 faq.xml, 1.68, 1.69 mencoder.xml, 1.40, 1.41 ports.xml, 1.60, 1.61 video.xml, 1.78, 1.79

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Fri Apr 1 21:54:41 CEST 2005


On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 02:26:43PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
> Diego Biurrun CVS wrote:
> 
> >Log Message:
> >correct spelling for mailing list names
> 
> If I'd seen this before it got applied, I'd have argued against it, on
> the grounds that the mailing list addresses are not (for instance)
> "MPlayer-dev-eng at mplayerhq.hu" but "mplayer-dev-eng at mplayerhq.hu". IOW,
> I would have taken the spelling actually used by the mailing list as
> being correct; as things stand, we now have it that the E-mail addresses
> used to send mail to the list are not strictly spelled correctly. I
> don't know that it's worth reversing the change, much less trying to
> change capitalization on the mailing list addresses, but my opinion
> nevertheless remains...

The names are not the same thing as the addresses.  Maybe they should be
the same, but they aren't.  If you look at our homepage or at the web
interfaces of the mailing lists you will see the capitalized versions.
This should be consistent IMO.

Diego




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