Re: reminder: public-rule-workshop-discuss@w3.org

On Jul 7, 2005, at 1:10 PM, Sandro Hawke wrote:

> For people who missed the original announcement a month ago [1], there
> is a mailing list more specifically scoped to the topics of April's
> Rule Interoperability workshop [2]:
>
>    public-rule-workshop-discuss@w3.org
>
> To subscribe, send a message with the subject "subscribe"
> to public-rule-workshop-discuss-request@w3.org.  You can also read the
> list archive at:
>
>    http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rule-workshop-discuss
>
> I'm not sure what exactly this leaves in scope for www-rdf-rules, but
> that's okay.

Gratuitous proliferation and death of mailing lists seems bad.

>   Please note that the new list, like the workshop, has
> people who are not particularly familiar with RDF, but rather who are
> generally interested in rule language standardization work being done
> at W3C.

Then why is it called rule-*WORKSHOP*-discuss instead of 
rule-w3c-standardization-discuss :)

> A thread today is about whether the data is expected to be in
> RDF, XML, or Java-like objects.

All of which would have been fine, afaict, in www-rdf-rules.

I mean, if your rationalization is having a better, more generic name, 
why not have, well, a better, more generic name :)

(Too late now!)

Cheers,
Bijan.