On 5 Jul 2012, at 01:24, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Eg, this list would be "mailman.org.python.mailman-developers". I know that's considered ugly-out-the-wazoo, but these need to be UUIDs (consider mirrors), and mailman@python.org should not be in the same subtree as mailman@python.net (ie,
mailman.net.python.mailman vs mailman.org.python.mailman
not
mailman.python.net.mailman vs mailman.python.org.mailman
The top-level maybe shouldn't be "mailman", but rather something like "list-archive".
Another issue with newsgroup names is that some lists *are* registered in the news hierarchy, so provision for such aliases should be allowed.
Let the bikeshed-painting begin!
OK. Where do these two email addresses sit?
foo@bar.example.com foo.bar@example.com
They're distinct addresses, but they clash in this naming scheme because of the collapse of (@,.) to (.).
If '@' can't be mapped to itself, or another unused character, then it needs to be mapped to a rarely used string, or it needs to be mapped to a configurable string. I suppose the default could be '.' if the string were configurable.
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