* Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net>:

> > Depending on your setup of your MTA (which one?) mailing addresses
> > with a "+" may be handle in unforeseen ways.
> > 
> > Which is why I had to change the mailinglist c++-sig into
> > cplusplus-sig here at python.org :|
> 
> 
> However, that would affect the use of a '+' in the listname.

Indeed. But an unusable list (like the notorious c++-sig) is no fun
either

> It would have no effect on the use of '+' in the list's description.
> The list's description is used as the "real name" portion of the list
> posting address that can be added to a Reply-To: or Cc: or in the case
> of an anonymous list From: header, but it should be properly encoded or
> quoted.
> 
> Mailman doesn't send this "+ in description for LISTNAME" message and
> doesn't generate messages From: root in any case. I suspect a non-GNU
> Mailman hourly cron.

Yup.

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