Re: Internet draft for VERP

[D. J. Bernstein]

Scott Schwartz writes:
> I think it's strange that qmail-inject uses '-' to seperate the mailbox
> from the verp part, even when some other conf-break character is in
> effect for that user.  This surely violates the principle of least
> surprise,

Certainly not. If a mailing list is named

   Jim+Joe-Bob#3

then people expect the service addresses for that list to be

   Jim+Joe-Bob#3-request
   Jim+Joe-Bob#3-owner
   Jim+Joe-Bob#3-subscribe

and so on. What follows Jim+Joe-Bob#3 is _always_ a dash. It doesn't
matter whether these addresses are controlled by Jim, or Jim+Joe, or
Jim+Joe-Bob, or Fred.

---Dan