[Fwd: [NOVICE] Mailing list problem: TLD .rs not recognized as valid]

Marc, FYI:
-------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Ognjen Blagojevic <ognjen@etf.bg.ac.yu>
> To: pgsql-novice@postgresql.org
> Subject: [NOVICE] Mailing list problem: TLD .rs not recognized as
> valid
> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:42:19 +0100
>
> Hi all,
>
> I sent similar mail 5 days ago to mailing list owner, but I didn't get
> any answer. Maybe someone here can help.
>
> ccTLD .yu is due to separation of Serbia and Montenegro being replaced
> by ccTLDs .rs (for Serbia) and .me (for Montenegro). As of 10 March
> 2008, .rs domain is active [1]. ccTLD .yu will exist for a while, most
> probably until September 2009, when it will be abandoned. Please reffer
> to IANA list [2].
>
> Yesterday, I tried to subscribe to this mailing list with my .rs
> address, but I got the following error message:
>
>
> -----------------------
> The e-mail address
>    ognjen@etf.bg.ac.rs
> is invalid.
> The host name does not include a valid top-level domain.
> Location of the error: "rs"
> -----------------------
>
>
> Majordomo developer Brent Chapman confirmed this as a bug, and wrote the
> proposed solution for the problem:
>
>
> -----------------------
> This is something that the never-officially-released Majordomo2 code
> (from http://www.mj2.org/) is doing, not something that the released
> Majordomo code (latest version 1.94.5, from
> http://www.greatcircle.com/majordomo) is doing.
>
> As you surmised, Majordomo2 has a list of top-level domains that it
> checks for validity.  It appears that the only way to add a domain to
> the list (at least in the pre-release version that I'm running) is to
> edit the list in the code, which is at the end of the lib/Mj/Addr.pm
> file.  Alternatively, you can disable the check entirely by unsetting
> the global configuration variable "addr_strict_domain_check"; you can do
> this via the mj_shell command "configset GLOBAL addr_strict_domain_check
> = no".
> -----------------------
>
>
> I suppose that pgsql-novice maililing list is also using
> never-officially-released Majordomo2, and that is the reason why I can't
> subscribe with .rs address.
>
> Can administrator of this mailing list update the top level domail list,
> or turn off the TLD checking as described in the above message?
>
> -Ognjen
>
> [1] http://www.rnids.rs/en/%252Farhiva_vesti_en
> [2] http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/index.html
>
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