[Mailman-Developers] MM3 - Using fqdn in the exposed URLs

[Barry Warsaw]

On Jun 11, 2012, at 05:43 AM, Richard Wackerbarth wrote:

>I think that we should rethink this decision and follow a "slug" approach to
>the identification of the mailing lists in URLs. Those who choose to do so
>can use the fqdn as their slug. But others would be able to readily change
>the mapping without having to rewrite significant parts of the interface
>code.

I agree that the shorter-url argument is more compelling than the
security-by-obscurity argument.

If the mapping need only happen in one direction, then something as simple as
hashing the mlist fqdn and taking a substring would probably be good enough.

-Barry
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