[Mailman-Developers] on the subject of fix_url, list creation with @ is non-intuitive..

Terri Oda terri at zone12.com
Mon Oct 18 08:32:21 CEST 2004


On Oct 17, 2004, at 8:43 PM, Bob Puff wrote:
> Hmm I guess I still don't get why "name at domain" is confusing, because 
> that
> -is- the posting address of the list!  If you want to add another 
> field for
> domain, that's fine; but I think the current behaviour makes sense.

Is it always the posting address, though?  If you create a list:

mylist at www.example.com

isn't it possible that www.example.com is just a webserver and the mail 
is actually handled by some other domain (eg: lists.example.com) which 
may not be the same machine?



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