[Mailman-Developers] URGENT: Google Summer of Code status report and code due

[Barry Warsaw]

On Jul 06, 2012, at 02:36 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>It's not clear to me how the MUA would know that.  Many MUAs (well, at
>least one, and you know which one I'm talking about!  Reindeer and
>mooses and Gnus, oh my!) can handle multiple feeds simultaneously.
>Suppose you have multiple archives (mirrors!) which happen to have the
>same list archived?  How does the MUA de-dupe lists (and/or merge
>them, although I don't know if any MUAs can do that) if we don't have
>a unique public name?
>
> > >Another issue with newsgroup names is that some lists *are* registered
> > >in the news hierarchy, so provision for such aliases should be allowed.
> > 
> > Maybe that's the reason for the prefix?
>
>Part of it, yes.

Should the prefix be configurable then?

-Barry

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