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

[Michael Chang]

|> If your list machine isn't the same box as the webserver machine, then
|> the web-based create isn't going to work.  :-)

Unless the webserver is mounting the list machine's Mailman installation
via NFS.

I think that if you want a fair compromise, then require a '--posting-address='
argument to `newlist' that accepts the xxx at xxx-style declaration.
Otherwise, by default, it parses the arguments like '<name> <listname>'.

Michael


|> Terri Oda wrote:
|> 
|> > 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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