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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: "Metas"
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 11:06:47 -0700
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To: Narcoleptic Electron <narcoleptic_electron@yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: "Alexander G. M. Smith" <agmsmith@rogers.com>, reiserfs-list@namesys.com

Narcoleptic Electron wrote:

>Hans Reiser wrote: 
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>
>>>Christian Iversen wrote on Mon, 5 Apr 2004 02:12:05
>>>      
>>>
>>+0200:
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>>>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.
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>>
>
>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.
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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