Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: Mailing lists on savannah

[Loic Dachary]

Richard Stallman writes:
 >     There is a misunderstanding. Savannah only handles Mailman mailing
 >     lists. It has no view on aliases file. Therefore there is no safe way to
 >     check if a mailing list already exists that is why we cannot do this
 >     automatically.
 > 
 > I am sure that can be done somehow.

        There already is code in Savannah to check the alias file of
fencepost. It is used by the user registration process to prevent
someone from using an account name that matches an existing alias in
the @gnu.org domain.

        Cheers,

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