[Mailman-Developers] on the subject of fix_url, list creation
with @ is non-intuitive..
Barry Warsaw
barry at python.org
Mon Oct 25 04:19:34 CEST 2004
On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 19:02, Terri Oda wrote:
> Is there any particular reason we couldn't change the newlist script to
> accept "name domain" instead of "name at domain" ? It's just that much
> less confusing if we don't have this thing that looks like an email
> address but isn't. I can't believe anyone's that attached to the
> confusing syntax, and the increased usability seems worth the small
> patch this'll take.
I think you'd have to change this in a backward compatible way. A
counter proposal would be to add name:domain (simply change the '@' to a
':') so it doesn't look like an email address. Continue to support the
original argument syntax for backward compatibility, but change the
documentation to favor the name:domain syntax.
-Barry
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