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Subject: Re: How to make a "-l"list -Reply
From: Dave Wolfe <dwolfe @ risc . sps . mot . com>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 09:32:31 -0600 (CST)
To: BCCHRISTENSEN @ novell . com (Brian Christensen)
Cc: majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . com
In-reply-to: <s2876566.054@novell.com> from "Brian Christensen" at Nov 11, 96 05:38:09 pm
Reply-to: Dave Wolfe <david_wolfe @ risc . sps . mot . com>

[ Brian Christensen writes: ]
> 
> This is odd to me, because I set up several lists that all had problems, and
> I spent countless hours trying to get them to work, and finally I changed all
> the names to 8 characters or less and they all worked.  Some of the
> names were cnenet-grpwise, cnenet-inet, cnenet-3x.  I was quite
> disappointed that I had to use 8 characters or less to get them to work.
> 
> >>> Dave Wolfe <dwolfe@risc.sps.mot.com> 11/11/96 12:18pm >>>
> [ Lex Luthor writes: ]
> > 
> >  Are there any special care when making a list with it's name containing 
> > a - ?
> 
> As long as your listname contains only (ASCII) alphanumerics, dash (-),
> and underscore (_), it's OK.

That doesn't make sense unless you also had to restrict things like
owner-listname and listname-outgoing to 8 characters. In any case it
would seem to be an MTA problem and not the fault of Mj. My answer to
the original question applies only to Mj.

-- 
 Dave Wolfe


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