[Savannah-hackers] name check during the creation of mailing list

[Guillaume Morin]

Hi,

In the upstream SourceForge code, the only name check during the
creation of a mailing list is a lookup in the db. This is not a problem
for the real sourceforge since they have a domain reserved for lists.
But the savannah lists will use the "gnu.org" domain. So we will need to
check the name thoroughly to avoid name clashes.

An approach could be to put a prefix before every savannah list like 
savannah-project- but this would lead to terribly long names. So I think
it is not a good idea.

Another possibility is to create another Mailman CGI that would check
if the name is not used by another list handled by Mailman, by another
list handled by /com/mailer/aliases.

Last possibility is to perform the same check in the cronjob which
actually creates the lists on fencepost. If a name clash is detected,
it would send a mail to the list admin and to savannah-hackers. This
would only require to delete a line in the Savannah DB.
This seems to be the best approach since it is far easier to implement,
and since I think name clashes would happen very rarely.

Any comments welcome.
Regards,

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Guillaume Morin <address@hidden>

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