25 Oct
2004
25 Oct
'04
2:19 a.m.
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@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