[Mailman-Users] RE: removing lists with spaces

Vince LaMonica vjl at soceco.uci.edu
Sat Mar 1 01:20:16 CET 2003


On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Staven Bruce wrote:

} That **seemed** to work, as when I ran rmlist, it gave me the standard
} output, however, after completeing the remove, it was still there!, admin
} links and adminpages! Any other ideas?

Hmmm...I'm not sure why that didn't work. You might try renaming the list 
w/o spaces and then deleting it. Spaces are not good characters to use in 
a UNIX environment.

} Also, I've figured out you can use "-" dashes in a List Name, but still no
} word on "_" underscores or spaces. Does anyone have any ideas? 

I would think underscores would work. Spaces will never work, as you can 
not have a space in an e.mail address. The name of the list is the first 
part of the e.mail address; eg: Mailman-users is a listname, and the addey 
is mailman-users at python.org.

An underscore is a legal character for e.mail addresses, so I'm not sure 
why MM doesn't want to use them. FWIW, dashes are easier to type [one 
doesn't have to use the <shift> key for a dash].

/vjl/


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