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[Chris Hastie <address@concealed>]

I notice that the alias template has a line for a <list>-subscribe 
address which has been commented out. Is there any reason for this? 
Brief tests suggest it does work, but I'm guessing may be there's some 
less than obvious problem with it. I'd certainly like to use it if not - 
trying to explain to some of my users that they have to put specific 
things in the Subject field is not easy ;)

The next bit was going to be a question, but I poked around in the code 
and answered it so it's more of an observation. I have a fairly 
conservative set of users who don't cope well with change so I'm trying 
to ensure that migration to Sympa will be as near transparent as 
possible for them. A big problem here is system aliases - Sympa's choice 
seems a little unusual. I had thought I could customise these by 
changing the relevant template and then making a few config changes. But 
unable to find the config options I was after I looked at the code to 
discover most of the addresses used in messages sent out by Sympa are 
hard coded so I'm pretty much stuck with Sympa's choice.

This differs somewhat from what my users are used to, eg:

CURRENT                 SYMPA
-owner                  -request
-bounce                 -owner
-request                see below
-moderators             -editor

The change of meaning of the -owner address is particularly likely to 
confuse existing users who are used to being able to get hold of a real 
person using this address. So as a wishlist thing, can these system 
aliases be configurable in future please?

The current system (Ecartis) uses the address listname-request as a 
command address that is specific to the list, ie it is not necessary to 
specify the listname along with the command. Is there an equivalent in 
Sympa, or does everything have to go to sympa and include the listname?
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Chris Hastie