Although some of us ignored convention and named our lists without the -L,
i.e. HISTARCH, SUB-ARCH, SPANBORD.



On Mar 3, 2008 7:32 AM, Bill Schipper <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> The -L stands for LIST, and goes back to the days of BITNET (those
> heady days when
> main frame computeres had 360 KB of computing power, and a hard disk
> was 10 MB and cost
> $10,000.
>
> One of the rules for BITNET was that user names (i.e. list names)
> could not be longer than
> 8 characters.   To distinguish LISTSERV list names from individuals,
> the convention
> included adding the letter -L as a suffix to the list name.
>
> Bill Schipper
>
>
> >---- Original message ----
> > >Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 17:56:05 -0500
> > >From: John Cunniff <[log in to unmask]>
> > >Subject: "-L" prefix
> > >To: [log in to unmask]
> > >
> > >Hello, Everybody!
> > >
> > >I am just being just dumb to ask: What does "-L" prefix means, why does
> > >this has to be added, for example:
> > >
> > >LIST-L
> > >MYLIST-L
> > >FOOD-L
> > >
> > >That made me curious why is this? On yahoogroups that I
> > >manage/participates on do not use "-L" prefixes like that.
> > >
> >
> >Actually, "-L" is not a prefix, it is a suffix because it comes at
> >the end of the list name.
> >
> >--
> >Tom Kozma
> >Computing & Information Technology
> >Wayne State University, Detroit MI
>
>


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