Re: Protection of hyphen

>>But some software (eg sendmail) has special knowledge of the
>>owner-listname construct.
>>
>>I wonder how much mailing list management software has things like
>>owner-listname or listname-request hardwired?  (Note: I'm not saying
>>that this is a big problem in practice; I'm just posing the question.)
>>

The "owner-" construct is used by smart auto reply software to avoid
giving an auto reply to mailing lists.

To avoid breaking things in use I would recommend encoding each
segment composed of ascii letters, digits and all non-ascii characters,
or each character separately.

   Dan