On 1/28/08, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > Well, depending on the archival method, a message can appear in both, with > only a single copy of it being stored. This can be achived, for example, > using symbolic (or even hard) links.
We do not do a "single instance store" within the archiving system of Mailman, and I can pretty much guarantee you that we never will. That's not to say that this is necessarily a bad idea, but I think we have much, much more important issues to resolve -- and probably will, for the entire future history of Mailman. > Similarly, if a relational database is > employed, the same message can be referred to from multiple places. We don't employ a relational database within Mailman, or the archiving system. If you want to implement that kind of function according to the API and programming hooks that we provide, that would be completely and totally outside the scope of Mailman per se. > Hardlinks, for example, is how one IMAP-server (cyrus, I believe) stores > messages sent to multiple recipients. We do not implement any kind of IMAP or other user mailbox service with Mailman. If you want that, you should go somewhere else. > But I was referring to search-results only. Regardless of how the >messages are > stored, if I type the search string and select several of the mailing list > archives to search through, the same message may appear in my search results > more than once. That duplication should not happen -- I don't think, anyone > would disagree. I *violently* disagree with your claim. If a message was cross-posted to multiple mailing lists and indexed by Google, then Google will most certainly return multiple hits for the same message, and this is precisely what any proper search engine should do. De-duplication at this level is absolutely the worst thing you could do -- at least by default, although this could potentially be an alternative that the search engine author could offer as an alternative. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users 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-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp