[development] Is emailpage abandoned [not any more!]

[Eric Goldhagen]

At 1:26 AM -0600 11/17/06, Larry Garfield wrote:
>On Friday 17 November 2006 01:21, Dries Buytaert wrote:
>>  On 16 Nov 2006, at 23:54, Moshe Weitzman wrote:
>>  >> but, i do think that email_node is a better name for the module
>>  >> being discussed.
>>  >
>>  > except for the fact that we carefully avoid the use of the word
>>  > 'node' in our UI because regular admins and users care not about
>>  > our abstractions. given that, i think email_node is a poor name.
>>  > 'email post' or 'email post to a friend' sound better.
>>
>>  I was about to say the exact same.  Using 'node' in your module name
>>  (or in user-generated output) is a sign of bad taste.  :)
>
>I don't know that I'd say bad taste (says the maintainer of a module that
>has "node" in its name... <g>), but it is limiting.  email_node.module ceases
>to be accurate as soon as you add the ability to forward a page built with
>views or panels or taxonomy or any of the other useful non-node displays. :-)

ok, that makes a lot sense to me, so much more than just saying "we 
don't use node because admins don't care".

Thanks for clarifying that for me.

--Eric
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