[Talk-us] Using prefixes for regional mail list topics

[Richard Welty]

On 12/3/09 8:18 AM, Serge Wroclawski wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Richard Welty
>
>    
>>>> This may very well already be the defacto standard, but if not, might I
>>>> suggest that we establish a best practice of prefixing subjects which are
>>>> regionally directed with a 2-4 character region prefix followed by a colon?
>>>>          
> Can you point to some examples (either on the wiki or on the map)
> which this applies to?
>
> I understand the use of addr:state but I don't know what regionally
> directed means.
>    
i think you may have missed the context.

this proposal is about how to qualify subject: lines of talk-us email 
when sending out
regionally specific messages, e.g. if i send out a message about surface 
streets being
missing in Horseheads NY (which i did a few days ago), i'd start the 
subject line like
this:

Subject: NY: random subject line about Horseheads

so that the locality would be narrowed down. the same would hold for 
mapping parties
and other like activities:

Subject: NY: meeting up in Albany next Tuesday

this is not something that would ever go in the OSM database, and would 
only go in
the wiki as informational about how to use the talk-us mailing list.

and when there starts to be a lot of stuff tagged NY: or CA: or 
whatever, then it's time
to split off a locality specific list.

richard