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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
To: Narcoleptic Electron <narcoleptic_electron@yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: "Alexander G. M. Smith" <agmsmith@rogers.com>, reiserfs-list@namesys.com
Subject: Re: "Metas"
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 11:06:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <407C2C37.30903@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040413180301.77098.qmail@web25010.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

Narcoleptic Electron wrote:

>Hans Reiser wrote: 
>
>  
>
>>>Christian Iversen wrote on Mon, 5 Apr 2004 02:12:05
>>>      
>>>
>>+0200:
>>    
>>
>>>Just a thought. Who on this list does NOT support
>>>"..." instead of metas?
>>>      
>>>
>>I care more about the persons who have never used
>>Linux, and what they 
>>find intuitive.
>>    
>>
>
>So do I.
>
>"Metas" has little meaning in most languages (and
>"goals" in some, which is misleading and likely to
>clash).
>
>An ellipsis ("...") means "and more" or "additional
>information" in almost all languages (if not all).
>
>There may be other arguments against ellipsis, but
>this one does not hold.
>
>
>______________________________________________________________________ 
>Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
>
>
>  
>
we could maybe go for ..../ but for reasons I cannot articulate I lack 
enthusiasm for it and prefer metas as a hidden pseudo-directory

-- 
Hans


  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-13 18:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-05  0:12 "Metas" Christian Iversen
2004-04-05  0:32 ` "Metas" Alexander G. M. Smith
2004-04-05  0:36   ` "Metas" Christian Iversen
2004-04-05 15:17   ` "Metas" Marcelo Pacheco
2004-04-13 16:51   ` "Metas" Hans Reiser
2004-04-13 18:03     ` "Metas" Narcoleptic Electron
2004-04-13 18:06       ` Hans Reiser [this message]
2004-04-16 18:11         ` "Metas" James H. Cloos Jr.
2004-04-16 19:20           ` "Metas" Narcoleptic Electron
2004-04-16 20:44             ` "Metas" Grant Miner
2004-04-18  3:33               ` "Metas" Narcoleptic Electron
2004-04-18  5:28                 ` "Metas" Zygo Blaxell
2004-04-21 16:17                   ` "Metas" Hans Reiser
2004-04-21 17:14                     ` "Metas" Grant Miner
2004-04-25  5:05                       ` "Metas" David Masover
2004-04-25  5:44                         ` "Metas" Hubert Chan
2004-04-23 20:35                     ` "Metas" mjt
2004-04-25  4:38                       ` "Metas" David Masover
2004-04-25 10:09                         ` "Metas" mjt
2004-04-26 22:30                           ` "Metas" Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-04-16 22:16             ` "Metas" David Masover
2004-04-18  3:31               ` "Metas" Narcoleptic Electron
2004-04-21 16:42     ` "Metas" John D. Heintz
2004-04-21 17:00       ` "Metas" Hans Reiser
2004-04-21 18:15         ` "Metas" John D. Heintz
2004-04-05  0:47 ` "Metas" Hubert Chan
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-04-21 16:19 "Metas" Burnes, James
     [not found] <no.id>
2004-04-17  2:55 ` "Metas" The Amazing Dragon
2004-04-28  5:06 ` "Metas" The Amazing Dragon
2004-04-28  6:49   ` "Metas" Hubert Chan
2004-04-28  9:32     ` "Metas" mjt

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