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Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 06:13:15 -0500
From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com>
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To: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Proposal to change name of this list to a less embarrassing one
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In article <9507052314.AA17533@emu.fsl.noaa.gov> you write:
>`devel' is appropriate given the BSD daemons that are hanging about,
>but I just don't like devel as an abbreviation for `development' or
>`developers' or whatever.

Why abbreviate at all? What's wrong with "freebsd-develop{ers,ment}" and set
up an alias "dev" for people who don't want to type.