On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Raquel Rice wrote: > On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 13:16:28 -0400 > "Dave Warchol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In testing, I ran into some issues using a special > > character (apostrophe) in the list name, this was in > > an earlier post. Any guidelines to follow when > > specifying the list name? > > Pretty much, a legal filename in *nix. (alphabetic characters, > numeric characters, underscore "_" and, dash "-")
Alphanumerics, underscore and dash is a great suggestion, and is what I use myself, but "a legal filename in *nix" is not such a great suggestion. At least in the *nixes that I have dealt with (Solaris, HPUX, and Linux), filenames can contain fun things like space, tab, "!", "@", "$", "&", "*", parenthesis, braces, bracket, angle-brackets, "|", control characters ... lots of stuff. (Those who doubt it, please see below for a small sample.) Some of these are even legal in e-mail addresses, but "alphanumerics, underscore and dash" are certainly the most common and least controversial characters for e-mail addresses and the other places Mailman list names show up. - Andrew ---------------------------------------------------------------- Mailman Administrator - http://www.tux.org/mailman/listinfo/ actual ls output: $ ls -l a* -rw-r--r-- 1 ajw01s staff 4 Sep 26 14:37 a b -rw-r--r-- 1 ajw01s staff 4 Sep 26 14:37 a!b -rw-r--r-- 1 ajw01s staff 4 Sep 26 14:38 a"b -rw-r--r-- 1 ajw01s staff 4 Sep 26 14:39 a$b -rw-r--r-- 1 ajw01s staff 4 Sep 26 14:39 a&b -rw-r--r-- 1 ajw01s staff 4 Sep 26 14:38 a'b -rw-r--r-- 1 ajw01s staff 4 Sep 26 14:37 a*b -rw-r--r-- 1 ajw01s staff 4 Sep 26 14:38 a<b -rw-r--r-- 1 ajw01s staff 4 Sep 26 14:37 a@b -rw-r--r-- 1 ajw01s staff 4 Sep 26 14:38 a]b -rw-r--r-- 1 ajw01s staff 4 Sep 26 14:37 a`b -rw-r--r-- 1 ajw01s staff 4 Sep 26 14:38 a{b -rw-r--r-- 1 ajw01s staff 4 Sep 26 14:40 a|b ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
