On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 12:08:09PM +0100, Robert van der Peijl wrote:
> We can't all share the same opinion :-) But I'll ask you this:
> how many Mersenne list messages have you missed since you joined the list?
Don't know.
> Respectfully, you probably don't know.
> Would you want to miss, say, a posting by George Woltman, and not
> know about it?
Missed many before I joined the list and the world kept on turning.
> It's common practice in the printed world to consecutively number the
> publications.
> Besides, I don't think it's that difficult to add a message counter.
> (Could you give me a good reason why the server shouldn't number the
> messages?)
Well there isn't a good reason why not, and there is already a counter
of sorts in the Message ID in the header, but it's not very human
readable.
Surely the list management software keeps a count of how many posts have
been sent out to the group, it's just a case of reading/writing that
digit into a header line.
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