[138] in Moira
mailing lists and enrolled users
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jnrees@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Jul 26 14:13:25 1990
From: jnrees@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 90 14:12:58 -0400
To: bug-moira@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Since enrolled users don't have a group list, creation of new lists by
the same name or mailing list name-changes to the name of an enrolled
user are an easy mistake for users. Setting up a user with a pobox
without checking to see if there is already a mailing list by that
name is another mistake.
Ie:
moira: qy glin cod
cod, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 16910, LIST, cod, Cycles Of Death Games Masters, 25-jun-1990 15:38:01, dagoura, listmain
1 tuple
moira: qy gpob cod
cod, SMTP, cod@eagle.mit.edu, 19-jul-1990 14:10:04, hoffmann, moira
1 tuple
moira: qy gubl cod
cod, 28311, /bin/csh, Osgood, Leo, , 5, oleiK2/9hd3YY, FACULTY, 19-jul-1990 14:07:03, hoffmann, moira
1 tuple
Currently, mail to "cod@athena" goes to the pobox, so the users on the
cod list are wondering what's up.
There is no easy fix to this situation. One thing that could be done
on the server side is to disallow creation or renaming of lists to the
same name as a current user by anyone not on dbadmin.
On the client side, warnings could be printed when a new user being
created or renamed matches the name of an existing list, or when a new
_mailing_ list being created matches the name of an existing user.
No, I don't have all the details worked out, but the problem exists.
Jim
