[Box-Admins] [Board] Change the description of vm-dev?

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Thu Apr 5 08:00:03 UTC 2018


Right. You don't want to change the name, but the description of the list.

- Bert -

On 5 April 2018 at 09:40, Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de> wrote:

> Why is it that hard? It is not the "identification" but rather the
> "description" of the list. The id is "vm-dev", right?
>
> Best,
> Marcel
>
> Am 05.04.2018 02:49:43 schrieb David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com>:
> On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 11:43:35AM -0700, Eliot Miranda wrote:
> > Hi Dave,
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 11:37 AM, David T. Lewis wrote:
> >
> > > I have two assignments from today's meeting:
> > >
> > > Assignment 1:
> > >
> > > Per the note below, change the identification of the vm-dev list from
> this:
> > >
> > > "Squeak Virtual Machine Development Discussion"
> > >
> > >
> > > to this:
> > >
> > > "Open Smalltalk Virtual Machine Development Discussion"
> > >
> > >
> > > I may need to get help on this, as I do not see anything in the list
> admin
> > > pages that lets me make the change, so probably it is configured
> elsewhere
> > > in mailman.
> > >
> >
> > See
> > https://wiki.list.org/DOC/4.70%20How%20do%20I%20change%
> 20the%20name%20of%20%28rename%29%20a%20list%3F
> > It's not pretty ;-)
> >
>
> Eliot,
>
> Oh dear, that is definitely not what I had in mind. I was hoping for
> something more like "s/Squeak/Open Smalltalk/".
>
> I'll take this over to the box-admins list and see if there is a practical
> solution.
>
> Levente, Tobias, box-admins:
>
> Following discussion with the board today, I would like to change the
> identification
> for the vm-dev mailing list to be "Open Smalltalk Virtual Machine
> Development Discussion"
> ("Open Smalltalk" rather than specifically "Squeak").
>
> I cannot see a way to do this from the administrator's page for vm-dev
> (which I
> control), so I suspect it may be something that can be done in the
> MailMail list
> configurations. Can someone help, or point me in the right direction?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Dave
>
>
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