[Mailman-Developers] Change to acceptable_aliases

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "HM" == Harald Meland <Harald.Meland@usit.uio.no> writes:

    >> About a year ago I sent out a proposal to the list about this
    >> that I think might still have some merit.  Rather than doing
    >> regular expression matching, why not do regex plus
    >> substitution?

    HM> I think this would complicate the interface quite a lot, while
    HM> still not buying us much more functionality.

I have to agree with Harald here.  I don't see a big enough win to
justify yet another configuration option.  I'm already distressed by
the large number of options Mailman currently supports, and am
thinking about ways to make the interfaces simpler.

    HM> If we're going to complicate this interface further, why not
    HM> go straight for some full-fledged ACL-like stuff?

What do you have in mind?

-Barry