Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752144AbZIWVl7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:41:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752005AbZIWVl6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:41:58 -0400 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:45909 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751519AbZIWVl6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:41:58 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:41:21 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Steven Rostedt Cc: John Kacur , David Miller , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , "H. Peter Anvin" , Thomas Gleixner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, fweisbec@gmail.com, acme@redhat.com, mhiramat@redhat.com, postmaster@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: mailing list for trace users Message-ID: <20090923214121.GB20204@elte.hu> References: <1253132182.20020.242.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> <20090922.153201.225375909.davem@davemloft.net> <20090923114725.GB4132@elte.hu> <20090923.111444.247045711.davem@davemloft.net> <20090923193020.GA20934@elte.hu> <520f0cf10909231240g11f5cafei5cbb4ed494eba76d@mail.gmail.com> <520f0cf10909231242r598b0bebtf99c8bea9690d11f@mail.gmail.com> <20090923195955.GC19358@elte.hu> <1253741072.2958.9.camel@frodo> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1253741072.2958.9.camel@frodo> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.5 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1755 Lines: 48 * Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 21:59 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * John Kacur wrote: > > > > > > Yikes - Ingo, I don't want to spawn a long thread here about what to > > > > call the list, but as a native English speaker, I think that > > > > "linux-trace-users" sounds much nicer than "linux-tracing-users". > > > > > > > > Perhaps, trace is an adjective describing the kind of users, in any > > > > case, it doesn't sound like "one trace" - so, could we go this one? > > > > (if you insist on linux-tracing then you have to drop the word > > > > "users") > > > > > > > > John > > > > > > > > > > That's funny, boast about my credentials as a native English speaker, > > > and then make a mistake. > > > > > > s/go this one/go with this one > > > > I hope you are right about linux-trace-users sounding better to native > > speakers than linux-tracing-users - because it sure sounds awful to me > > :-) > > > > Any other English native speakers with an opinion one way or another? > > Yes "linux-trace-users" sounds better, because it doesn't sound like > proper English. It sort of breaks it up "linux-trace ... users" gives > a ring of "linux tracing for users". > > But if you go with the more proper sounding 'linux-tracing-users" it > (to a native speaker) sounds more like a sentence, and my response is > "Oh God, Linux is now tracing its users, but I don't want to be > traced!". > > ;-) Ok, i concur then :-) Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/