[admin] List move from RHAT to pdx

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Sun Jan 25 15:50:32 EET 2004


On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 02:36:55PM +0100, Marc Mutz wrote:
> On Thursday 22 January 2004 01:53, Daniel Stone wrote:
> >  With this comes a minor
> > change: message-bus-list is now known as 'dbus', and xdg-list as
> > 'xdg', which may break some filters. Sorry about that. You should be
> > filtering on '^X-BeenThere: xdg at freedesktop.org$'.
> 
> No, you should be filtering according to the standard
>   List-id contains "<xgd-list.freedesktop.org>"
> where that token is supposed to stay constant even on list renames or 
> moves from one server to the other (RFC 2919). I know, though, that 
> mailman is broken in that respect (you can't configure the list-id).
> 
> But I think it's important to tell people that List-ID is in fact an 
> IETF proposed standard and not a mailman-private thing, even though the 
> mailman developers treat it like this (the latest version omits the 
> non-optional angle-brackets in the list-id header when the optional 
> description is empty).

Hm, I didn't know this. Is there any way to insert another List-Id
header in so we can still have xdg-list going out as well/whatever?

-- 
Daniel Stone                                              <daniel at fooishbar.org>
"The programs are documented fully by _The Rise and Fall of a Fooish Bar_,
available by the Info system." -- debian/manpage.sgml.ex, dh_make template
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/attachments/20040126/89519e3c/attachment.pgp 


More information about the xdg mailing list