Adam McGreggor writes: > Or could we meet user expectations (real users, not geeks), [and > allow glob syntax].
Definitely worth discussing, but my initial reaction is negative for the reasons discussed below. > Simples: > *@mail.ru > *@*mail.ru > ?????@mail.ru Are those anchored? At the beginning of string? At end? Is there really a use case for "?"? I don't see this as an obvious feature. Globs are also too blunt for the use case, especially since bad actors do deliberately use fine distinctions between well-known domains and their own sinkholes of depravity when phishing. Users are likely to be lazy, using "*@*mail.ru" to catch both "badac...@mail.ru" and "badac...@spamsource.mail.ru", trashing "nice...@goodmail.ru"'s posts in the process. > Off the top of my head, the syntax would define if it's an absolute > address (f...@example.com) vs a regexp. "f...@example.com" is unambiguous, but "foo+mail...@example.com" is not. That's a big trap for users, who surely know exactly what they mean by that (and it's not foooooooooooomail...@example.com!) In theory we could use globs as well (some of the modern VCSes permit glob or regexp syntax), but it's not a serious data loss issue for a VCS if a mistake is made. You just run the add command again with -f, or uncommit, or whatever. Granted, a perverse enough user could fail to add a file, commit, then overwrite the file, but this is much less serious than the possibility that a particular user would end up as collateral damage to a spam filter. Steve _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
