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
next prev parent 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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