On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:00:52 +0100 Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 12:01 AM -0800 2006-01-17, J C Lawrence wrote:
>> Long time no talk. Whaddya think of adding message_id as a >> replaceable token for footers and the like? This would allow footers >> to be constructed which direct URL-reference their own post in an >> NNTP archive. > I like the concept, but the only problem is that message-ids are not > guaranteed unique. I'd like to see a guaranteed unique id be > generated on the system, and then have that used as the new > message-id, displayable in the footers, used as the index reference in > the mailing list archives, etc.... While true (the non-guarantee), in working across a quarter million messages in the archives of my various lists I've hit less than a score of duplicate or missing Message-IDs. That's a small enough problem that I'm willing to just eat the conflicts. -- J C Lawrence They said, "You have a blue guitar, ---------(*) You do not play things as they are." [EMAIL PROTECTED] The man replied, "Things as they are http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Are changed upon the blue guitar." _______________________________________________ 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-users%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
