Adam McGreggor writes: > Or could we meet user expectations (real users, not geeks), [and > allow glob syntax].
Definitely worth discussing, but my initial reaction is negative for the reasons discussed below. > Simples: > *@mail.ru > *@*mail.ru > [email protected] Are those anchored? At the beginning of string? At end? Is there really a use case for "?"? I don't see this as an obvious feature. Globs are also too blunt for the use case, especially since bad actors do deliberately use fine distinctions between well-known domains and their own sinkholes of depravity when phishing. Users are likely to be lazy, using "*@*mail.ru" to catch both "[email protected]" and "[email protected]", trashing "[email protected]"'s posts in the process. > Off the top of my head, the syntax would define if it's an absolute > address ([email protected]) vs a regexp. "[email protected]" is unambiguous, but "[email protected]" is not. That's a big trap for users, who surely know exactly what they mean by that (and it's not [email protected]!) In theory we could use globs as well (some of the modern VCSes permit glob or regexp syntax), but it's not a serious data loss issue for a VCS if a mistake is made. You just run the add command again with -f, or uncommit, or whatever. Granted, a perverse enough user could fail to add a file, commit, then overwrite the file, but this is much less serious than the possibility that a particular user would end up as collateral damage to a spam filter. Steve _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
