Sorry, Lauren, but you are misinformed. I'll be happy to drop it when everyone gets the facts straight. Naming all the lists with a terminal -L would NOT require any reengineering or code changes at all. Mailman can handle "list-update-L" as a list name just as easily as it currently handles "list-update". I checked this with the folks on the Mailman mail list. True, the -L/-D/-I suffixes were NOT part of the list name under Smartlist, but the -L at least could be with Mailman. And, as Karen Isaacson Leverich stated on July 26 on the LD list, "Once upon a time, long long ago (we're talking 1987), Alf Christopherson created ROOTS-L using LISTSERV at NDSU." -R. Lauren Boyd wrote: >Dear Listers: > >Rod hashed and hashed and rehashed this already on the List Development list. >I don't see any reason to repeat that discussion here. His comments and >concerns WERE brought to the BETA list. I really would rather not have to >read a third round of this which has become a moot point. > >Let it suffice that it will require extra reengineering of the >software, defeating >the purpose of going to something new and upgradable, will block more spam >from hitting the lists, etc. > >The -L is not part of the list name. It was an artificial designator to force >Smartlist to do something that even it was not designed to do. To my >knowledge "ListServ" was not the software ever used at Rootsweb.com > >Yes, there may be a wee bit of work for subscribers to edit their filters. >That will be a short lived experience. And much worth the trade off from >having software that was failing the system. > >Can we move off thiis topic, Rod? Please. Asked and answered. The horse >will not smell any better getting beat on this list too. > >Cheers, > >Lauren > > > -- Regards, Rod Dav4is / P.O. Box 118 / Hyde Park, NY 12538 / USA Genealogy, et Cetera: http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~dav4is/ 447 ancestral & collateral families, mostly 17°-19° century New England & European roots. Total population: 108,300+ Annex: http://www.gencircles.com/users/dav4is/ email: DAV4IS@YAHOO.COM "We have met the enemy, and he is us!" -Pogo Possum (1970)