Re: New Non-WG Mailing List: Mpvdapi

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Barry,

> On Apr 2, 2015, at 1:10 PM, Barry Leiba <barryleiba@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>>> Purpose:
>>> 
>>> MPVD API design is very important for MPVD concept of MIF working
>>> group, MIF working group decide to write MPVD API document by build a
>>> design team, this mailing list is try to help the design team to
>>> discuss the main issues and write the document.
> ...
>> perhaps expanding some acronyms would be helpful for the reader who is
>> not deeply involved in multi-person venereal diseases.
> 
> He...
> 
> A good point.  We actually have made a change that's supposed to help
> here.  The non-WG mailing list requests that we send to the
> secretariat used to have a "short description" line, which would
> almost never be enough information.  We added a second "somewhat
> longer description" line for the announcement.  What you see above is
> the result of that, and you can be thankful that it's at least useful
> once you get the acronyms expanded.
> 
> So what we have to do now is have the discipline to expand the
> acronyms.  Thanks for calling attention to that, and for the...
> interesting guess at a possible expansion.

It more than expanding the acronyms.  In this case expanding the acronyms wouldn’t solve the problem, the actual text is pretty broken.  It is one run-on sentence.

We could do a lot better here.

Bob

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