[Mailman-Developers] dots in list name -> archive not accessible?

[Gerhard Gonter]

Once upon a time, one group of users decided that they need a list
called Assistent/Inn/En@wu-wien.ac.at and it took me a while to
convince them, that the / would not work so they accepted
Assistent.Inn.En@wu-wien.ac.at which worked quite well on Listproc...

Today I moved the list, everything went fine except that the
archives were not accessible from the list overview page.

I tracked this problem down to Mailman/Cgi/private.py where this
function is defined, which strips an extension from the directory
name:

| def getListName(path):
|     component = string.split(path, os.sep)[1]
|     root, ext = os.path.splitext(component)
|     return root

If component is returned instead of root, everything seems to
be working fine for this list and the other lists without dots
in their name.

Why should an extension be stripped?  Is this a bug, a feature, or
something that was left over from VMS times?

P.S.: Yesterday I mailed an message about the problems our users
have with automatically generated passwords.  Neither my collegue
nor I seem to have received the article, also, no flames appeared
either ;)  The article has been archived as

http://www.python.org/pipermail/mailman-developers/1999-April/001040.html

Did something go wrong with that?

+gg
 
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