
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 02:49:44PM -0400, Bob Puff@NLE wrote:
Right. But when would you use a www.domain? I never use www. Do people name their box www? I usually name the host something else. I think most people are smart enough to figure out that list_name@domain is not list_name@www.domain. You face the exact same problem of people doing the same things with two different parameters; i.e., bin/create list_name www.domain etc...
I think you are completely missing the point. In this case list@domain isn't list@domain at all. It's actually http://domain/mailman/listinfo/listname
Is that obvious? Not to me. Let's use something that appears to be an e-mail address as an obscure shortcut for a long web URL?
If it contains at '@' sign, it should refer to an e-mail address. If it contains 'http:' sign, it should refer to a web address. (rule #2 obviously overrides rule#1 when the URL contains an '@' ..)
Create should allow a second parameter to define the web url. But the '@' syntax really should refer to the mail domain.
-- Joe Rhett Senior Geek Meer.net