[Mailman-Developers] Re: Todo list questions

[Barry A. Warsaw]

<<on address matching for subdomains>>

I wonder if DNS MX records could be used to help out here?  You could
strip lefthand components until you find an MX record.  Do this for
both addresses and then compare MX records.  Of course, you have the
disadvantages we've talked about before for tying in with DNS...

Barring that, you might just want to steal Majordomo's algorithm since 
it seems to work in practice ;-).

<<making confirmation easier>>

To avoid quoting/citing hell, you'll probably have to put the
confirmation magic in the Subject: header, so a simply reply will
contain that data largely unchanged (module Re:'s).  In the *body* of
the message you can put some explanatory text saying

    By replying to this message you will be subscribed to the
    foobar@thingie.com mailing list.  Do not modify the Subject
    header!  If you do not want to be subscribed to foobar@thingie.com 
    just ignore and/or delete this message.  For more information
    about the foobar@thingie.com mailing list, please see
    <http://www.thingie.com/mailman/listinfo/foobar>

That ought to be sufficient for 99% of moderately clueful people. :-)

-Barry