On Jun 11, 2012, at 05:43 AM, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: >I think that we should rethink this decision and follow a "slug" approach to >the identification of the mailing lists in URLs. Those who choose to do so >can use the fqdn as their slug. But others would be able to readily change >the mapping without having to rewrite significant parts of the interface >code.
I agree that the shorter-url argument is more compelling than the security-by-obscurity argument. If the mapping need only happen in one direction, then something as simple as hashing the mlist fqdn and taking a substring would probably be good enough. -Barry
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