[Mailman-Developers] lowercase listnames?

[Dan Mick]

> >>>>> "DM" == Dan Mick <Dan.Mick@West.Sun.COM> writes:
> 
>     DM> newlist lowercases the listname before creating it.  Is there
>     DM> any good reason for this?  Unix isn't case-insensitive; do we
>     DM> really want Mailman to be?
> 
> I don't think it make sense to have two lists at a site that differ
> only by case.

That may be, but if I'd like my list to be called MyList as opposed
to mylist, why should Mailman dictate that it can't?

For duplicate-checking, sure, lowercase it internally, but it
seems wrong to lowercase it in places where it doesn't matter.