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From: Mike Diamond <diamond @ superatomic . com>
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 10:58:35 -0400 (EDT)
To: majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <yl90j71xar.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>

On 25 Sep 1998, Russ Allbery wrote:

> One line in /var/qmail/users/subusers delegates all addresses beginning
> with "[listname]-" to majordomo.  If I supported owner-[listname], it
> would be considerably more of a pain.  Like a lot of other mail systems,
> qmail delegates namespace by prefix, not by suffix.


If qmail delegates by prefix, how is "[listname]-" easier to deal with than
"owner-"?  Using "owner-[listname]" would give you the common prefix you're
arguing for.


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