On 02/14/2016 05:23 AM, Tom Browder wrote:

In my old MM 2 lists I used the second form (without "lists") and I still want to use that form with MM 3.

Are there any reasons why I shouldn't use the second form?

No.

In my opinion, the second form may be easier for inexperienced mailing list users, but, on the other hand, the first form makes it a bit clearer that the addressee is a list, not an individual.

What you say is valid, and is perhaps something to think about, but doesn't clearly argue for one over the other.

The lists.domain.tld form is used by default in the Debian/Ubuntu Mailman package, I think in large part because Debian likes postfix_to_mailman.py delivery to Mailman and that delivery requires all lists to be in a dedicated domain that has no non-list addresses. See <http://wiki.list.org/x/15564817> and the links in the last paragraph thereof for my opinion of postfix_to_mailman.py.

Another factor may be the actual list name, e.g.,

grads-list@mycollege.org

versus

grads@mycollege.org

or other forms of a list name.

I think that's a matter of taste. Personally, I think grads@mycollege.org is descriptive and grads-list@mycollege.org is redundant, but as I say, it's a matter of taste and there's no arguing with taste.

-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

On 02/14/2016 05:23 AM, Tom Browder wrote:

In my old MM 2 lists I used the second form (without "lists") and I still want to use that form with MM 3.

Are there any reasons why I shouldn't use the second form?

No.

In my opinion, the second form may be easier for inexperienced mailing list users, but, on the other hand, the first form makes it a bit clearer that the addressee is a list, not an individual.

What you say is valid, and is perhaps something to think about, but doesn't clearly argue for one over the other.

The lists.domain.tld form is used by default in the Debian/Ubuntu Mailman package, I think in large part because Debian likes postfix_to_mailman.py delivery to Mailman and that delivery requires all lists to be in a dedicated domain that has no non-list addresses. See <http://wiki.list.org/x/15564817> and the links in the last paragraph thereof for my opinion of postfix_to_mailman.py.

Another factor may be the actual list name, e.g.,

grads-list@mycollege.org

versus

grads@mycollege.org

or other forms of a list name.

I think that's a matter of taste. Personally, I think grads@mycollege.org is descriptive and grads-list@mycollege.org is redundant, but as I say, it's a matter of taste and there's no arguing with taste.

-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan