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

Bob Puff at NLE bob at nleaudio.com
Wed Oct 27 19:48:38 CEST 2004


...But vanity domains are normally virtualhosts, which already work.  I think it is 
counter-intuitive to have:
Email:  list at domain
and then have the web interface be at: http://some.other.domain/some other folder/list

Bob

Joe Rhett wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 01:31:00PM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> 
>>On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 13:16, Joe Rhett wrote:
>>
>>
>>>It's also simple to run fix_url in a similar manner.  So why is the url
>>>setting provided with newlist?
>>
>>newlist predates both fix_url and config_list.
> 
> 
> Make sense.
> 
> But anyway, my arguement is that having a vanity mailaddr for the list is
> fairly common (over 90% in most implementations I've seen) so can't we get
> this put into newlist as being generally useful?
> 
> 


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