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Nathan Brindle <[log in to unmask]>
Mon, 20 Aug 2001 09:05:15 EDT
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"By_Owner" and "By Owner" are the only permissible syntaxes.  The former
is an obsolete syntax but is still accepted for backward compatibility.

Nathan

On Mon, 20 Aug 2001 11:13:49 +0100 Warhurst, SI (Spencer) said:
>Hi
>
>While in the process of doing a script to gets some stats on list
>configuration, I came across something that I've not noticed before. The
>Subscription keyword is one example:
>
>In the site manager's manual, the "By Owner" setting for Subscription is
>written with a space in it, yet it also accepts "By_Owner" with an
>underscore. It doesn't mention this anywhere in the manual as far as I can
>see.. "By-Owner" comes up with an error when you update the configuration,
>but are there any other accepted characters in between "by" & "owner"?
>
>I'm going to be doing a html configuration interface to simplify list
>configuration for list owners, and obviously when it comes to reading the
>existing configuration in, I've got to take into account syntax quirks like
>this.
>
>Thanks
>
>--
>Spencer Warhurst
>JISCmail Service Manager

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