Actually, the Django methodology would allow the website designer to choose any URL that she wishes. So, Postorius should be able to set a configuration parameter to any value that the designer chooses and "core" would just be echoing it.
Richard
On Jun 11, 2012, at 11:28 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
On Jun 11, 2012, at 05:43 AM, Richard Wackerbarth wrote:
I think that we should rethink this decision and follow a "slug" approach to the identification of the mailing lists in URLs. Those who choose to do so can use the fqdn as their slug. But others would be able to readily change the mapping without having to rewrite significant parts of the interface code.
I agree that the shorter-url argument is more compelling than the security-by-obscurity argument.
If the mapping need only happen in one direction, then something as simple as hashing the mlist fqdn and taking a substring would probably be good enough.
-Barry