[469] in Moira
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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Rosenstein)
Thu Oct 22 12:27:06 1992
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 92 12:26:49 -0400
From: Mark Rosenstein <mar@MIT.EDU>
To: hoffmann@MIT.EDU, postmaster@MIT.EDU, marc@MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-moira@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: hoffmann@MIT.EDU's message of Tue, 20 Oct 92 10:38:00 -0400 <9210201438.AA10041@Paddington.MIT.EDU>
I found the bug here, and it's subtle. The code used to generate
MIT's aliases is almost identical to that used for the other mailhubs.
Yes, they both promote lists to maillists if they are members of a
maillist.
The problem is that MIT also builds this huge hash table of everyone's
real names, and has to check those for collisions against list names
and login names. When it builds the hash table, it strips the names
of punctuation characters. But it accidentally does this in a way
that modifies the actual list name, so 6.001 was being put in MIT's
aliases file as 6001, without the period.
I'll have to see if I can fix this without having to save multiple
copies of each string.
-Mark
