[1659] in Moira
(undesired?) blanche change
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laura Baldwin)
Thu Aug 24 09:32:46 2000
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 09:32:43 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200008241332.JAA04742@never-never-land.mit.edu>
From: Laura Baldwin <boojum@MIT.EDU>
To: moiradev@mit.edu
So, I don't actually know when this behavior changed, but I did like
the old way better.
blanche listname -a bogususername
where bogususername is not a user or list, used to give an error
message that bogususername was not a valid user or list name (I don't
remember the exact phrasing), and not add it to listname.
The current behavior is give a warning message and to add
STRING:bogususername, which I sort of think is never the right thing.
If bogususername has no @ sign in it (which is what causes it to be
originally parsed not as a string?), then if it's not a list or a
user, then it's not going to go anywhere as a string.
Certainly this means that when a user asks for a list and makes some
typos in the list of usernames, then I have to go back and remove all
the typo entries by hand, instead of blanche being so kind as to do it
automatically. If there are circumstances that I haven't thought of
where people think that adding STRING:bogususername is actually the
correct thing to do, then I'll concede and remember to remove the
broken names, but I'm failing to think of where you'd actually want
this.
-Laura
