[Mailman-Developers] lowercase listnames?

[Dan Mick]

> >>>>> "DF" == Darrell Fuhriman <darrell@grumblesmurf.net> writes:
> 
>     DF> Though god knows why anyone would *want* a case-sensitive
>     DF> anything in an e-mail address.  gun, foot and all that.
>     DF> *shudder*

Some (many?) of us have no problem using case to distinguish things,
and rely on it for modes of expression.

> It has definitely come up in the past and caused people problems.
> Probably not a majority of users, but still.

Sure.  "rm" causes problems for some users, too.

> When you register an email address with Mailman, it case preserves the
> localpart for purposes of sending out the messages, but it always
> compares email addresses case insensitively.  You can't subscribe two
> addresses which differ only by case,

...and that's appropriate, since the SMTP systems won't deal with that
either...

>  but when it sends out a message,
> it will make sure to send it out with the exact address that was
> subscribed.

...and this ought to be as true for the list name as it is for
the user addresses.