> What we really want to know is how many (non-empty) Message-ID > collisions are there that *don't* share a Date? This is the number of > messages that only-messageid loses, and that the composite identifier > method would not lose.
I took a look at a larger dataset, 5.85 million messages from several thousand lists. Of the messages that share message-id but not date, most come from a small number of based web services. 875 come from forums.slimdevices.com 378 come from lists.openplans.org 265 come from nabble.com 164 come from egroups.com 135 come from yahoo.com 166 come from elsewhere That's 0.03% if you count all the messages. It is 0.008% if you discard the top three offenders, all of which I have contacted. I didn't try contacting Yahoo/eGroups because in my past experience, talking to a brick wall is easier. I have not analyzed how many of these messages are spam or have duplicate bodies, which further discounts the percentages. Hope this data helps. _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
