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Eric Thomas <ERIC@FRECP11> |
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Actually this doesn't happen on EDITOR and OWNER checks any long with my
modified 1.5j, so this is not a problem. But UUCP people will probably not be
allowed to send mail to a lot of private lists any more.
I personally think that preserving case is stupid, and that UNIX is a big
bag of sh*t. However, I don't mind having LISTSERV being stupid and preserving
case, as long as it is consistent with its own stupidity. Thus, if
"[log in to unmask]" and "[log in to unmask]" are two different persons, then
assuming the first one is signed up to a private list, the second one won't be
able to send mail to it. This is just not the same person you see. If it
happens to be the same person, I'm sorry but it's the way it goes. If I were
to treat them as being the same userid, I would have to delete both of them on
a SIGNOFF request.
The only reason why this is not done for EDITOR and OWNER is that the
userids you provide in the header get upcased by the keyword processor, which
is a general (and documented) behaviour for list keywords and I don't want to
introduce dirty hacks for UUCP. Otherwise you'd have to enter the userids
within quotation marks to have to keyword processor preserve the case, ie
Owner = "[log in to unmask]", and this would not be upwards compatible with
unquoted headers so I preferred to leave it out the way it is, upper case
match. I would have preferred to go for lower case match though, but this
would have meant more complaints in my reader.
Eric
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