[Mailman-Users] List Name Guidelines

[Raquel Rice]

On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 14:46:53 -0400 (EDT)
<mailman at tux.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Raquel Rice wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 13:16:28 -0400
> > "Dave Warchol" <Warchol at harthosp.org> wrote:
> >
> > > In testing, I ran into some issues using a special
> > > character (apostrophe) in the list name, this was in
> > > an earlier post.  Any guidelines to follow when
> > > specifying the list name?
> >
> > Pretty much, a legal filename in *nix.  (alphabetic characters,
> > numeric characters, underscore "_" and, dash "-")
> 
> Alphanumerics, underscore and dash is a great suggestion, and is
> what I use myself, but "a legal filename in *nix" is not such a
> great suggestion.  At least in the *nixes that I have dealt with
> (Solaris, HPUX, and Linux), filenames can contain fun things like
> space, tab, "!", "@", "$", "&", "*", parenthesis, braces, bracket,
> angle-brackets, "|", control characters ... lots of stuff.  (Those
> who doubt it, please see below for a small sample.)  Some of these
> are even legal in e-mail addresses, but "alphanumerics, underscore
> and dash" are certainly the most common and least controversial
> characters for e-mail addresses and the other places Mailman list
> names show up.
> 
> - Andrew

I stand corrected on the "legal filename in *nix".

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Raquel
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