On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 09:04:14 -0700 somuchfun <somuchfun@atlantismail.com> wrote:
The issue is not whether it was obvious or not, the issue is that this new feature cannot even be turned off, just changed to a different format. Since there are many configurations out there that might not work with VERP I find introducing a feature that is on by default and that cannot be turned off causing more harm than doing good.
Without disagreeing with your point:
At some point Mailman ends up in the position of pushing technical standard adoption (such as the RFC 2369 List-* headers). No matter when the adoption decision is made someone will be unhappy.
Plus addressing is not even close to new. I'm aware of no production MTAs that don't support plus-addressing. At what point should Mailman simply assume technical capability on the part of installation sites? Mailman already currently assumes a number of non-default things about the execution space, why not plus-addressing as well?
When is the right time?
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