[Mailman-Developers] Re: Todo list questions

[Christian Tismer]

John Viega wrote:
> 
> On Thu, May 07, 1998 at 02:43:24PM -0400, Scott wrote:
> 
> > just wanted to put in my $.02 about address matching.  i don't think
> > any special mecahnsim other than
> >
> > string.lower(string.strip(address1)) ==
> > string.lower(string.strip(address2)) should be used. therer are some
> > instances , for example, 2 of my own address, where it is perfectly valid
> > for user@furtherqualified.domain.dom to be a different address than
> > user@domain.dom.
> >
> > in addition when you start taking into account how many parts you
> > should compare based on individual top level domains, you're hard
> > wiring knowledge that can change daily.
> >
> > my vote is to have addresses match only if they are the same username
> > and have the same doman part, case folded.
> >
> 
> Well, I agree with you, but I know people who will not.  Do you really
> think it's a bad idea to let the site admin change it if he prefers?

If that feature is there why not. But I don't believe there is an
urgent need for this.

Wouldn't it be the more general solution to allow for an alias list
which explicitly says which addresses are considered equal? We
would define multiple ingoing addresses and one outgoing which is
the "nominal" address.
Since there are many special cases (Aaron Watters used to use many
completely different addresses, for istance), the domain mangling
would not solve all requirements, and this one is needed anyway.

ciao - pirx

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