[Balug-admin] I'd like to help

[Xavier]

Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Michael Paoli (mp@rawbw.com):
>>balug-talk-balug.org@lists.balug.org
>>is rather long, not-so-user-friendly and relatively redundant e-mail address
>>for a BALUG talk list)
> 
> I'd maintain that the "lists.balug.org" part is good, and is what should
> have been done originally.  That is, one should ideally use "role" CNAME
> records (or A records, where SMTP is involved) for each distinct major
> public function that a host will serve.  This level of indirect
> addressing lets you reassign individual roles when necessary to different 
> underlying hosts, smoothly transitioning them just by editing DNS
> records (and then waiting a while for caches to time out).

Further, with decent control over DNS, the timeouts can be decreased a
day or two before the transition, which would nearly make future
transitions smooth.

> So, I'd urge _not_ simplifying back to "balug.org", for the list
> addresses.

I agree.

List addresses like:
admin@lists.balug.org
announcement@lists.balug.org
talk@lists.balug.org
..are almost delightful to read IMHO.