[Ti] Titanium/Aluminum List name

[Dennis Fazio]

--On Friday, September 19, 2003 10:44 PM -0400 mburke6225 at aol.com wrote:

>  But the one thing that will be consistent is that this list deals with the
> top powerbook made by Apple.

Not quite. On  <http://www.themacintoshguy.com/lists/>  the list is described 
thus:

Titanium G4 || A forum for fans and users of Apple's new Titanuim G4 
PowerBook.

Mail lists are usually for the purpose of discussing a particular topic. If 
you want to migrate to a new topic, you need a new list. I believe this list 
was created to cover the PowerBook G4, nicknamed "Titanium." That new machine 
was deemed sufficiently different from the PowerBook G3 series that it was 
appropriate to have its own list (as opposed to "PowerBooks" in general which 
could cover machines that go way back to the 100/140/180 series).

If you'll look in your mail headers, you will see that the messages come from:
PowerBook G4 Titanium List <Titanium at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
which is pretty descriptive and specific.

The real question, then, is whether the PowerBook G4 "Aluminum" is 
sufficiently different (i.e. architecturally, mechanically and operationally) 
from the PowerBook G4 "Titanium" to warrant its own list.

If so, then one should be created. this PowerBook G4 Titanium list then 
continues as in the past, absent any further messages on the new Aluminum 
PowerBooks.

If the difference is not considered that great, then this list can work for 
both as a "PowerBook G4" list. The unfortunate part, and what I think Steve 
Wozniak was originally pointing out much more succinctly than my message 
here, is that the cool "Titanium" name is no longer appropriate or 
descriptive for a combined list. That leaves us with clever variations like 
"Titalium" or the mundane, yet descriptive, "PowerBook G4."

Other creative submissions encouraged.

-- 
Dennis Fazio
dfz at mac.com