[Mailman-Users] rmlist

[J C Lawrence]

On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 01:27:36 -0600 
Ashley M Kirchner <ashley at pcraft.com> wrote:
> J C Lawrence wrote:

>> No need.  Just blow away the list directory, archive directories and
>> files, and any aliases manually.  That's all that rmlist does...

> That's not why I said to escalate it up.  Yes there are ways of
> removing the list without mercy, however I do believe that Mailman
> should try to remove it, regardless of someone making the mistake of
> having odd characters in the list name.  Unless this particular
> problem is a python issue, in which case I think we should mention it
> to the python folks.

More simply:  newlist should refuse to make lists with illegal names (eg
whitespace is illegal in addresses).

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