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Subject: Re: '.' in listname
From: Dave Barr <barr @ math . psu . edu>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 18:58:25 -0400
To: "Marcos Ramirez A." <marcos @ inf . utfsm . cl>
Cc: Beth . Paxton @ amd . com (Beth Paxton), majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 20 Jun 1995 18:10:05 EDT." <199506202210.AA14306@camahueto.inf.utfsm.cl>

In message <199506202210.AA14306@camahueto.inf.utfsm.cl>, "Marcos Ramirez A." w
rites:
>	Majordomo does not support list with dots. But i can send you a patch i
>wrote to allow majordomo to support this feature (i need it because i have som
>e
>gateways betwen lists and local newsgroups).

The usual convention in this case is to replace the dots with dashes.
(that's how C-News and INN's %s gets expanded in the mailpaths/moderators
file, for example)

--Dave


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