ilf wrote in <X/wpzrqbc5ivx...@zeromail.org>: |Eric Wong: |> Without opening the above URLs, you can immediately tell it's |> from April 6, 2016. | |Message-IDs are not supposed to be human-meaningful:
I am with Eric Wong here and agreed with almost everything he says (except i hate git-send-email being standard now since i can do the same with my MUA), this goes as far as with even the number of random bytes (we use 5 except under a special condition, when we use 8 -- these are "RFC4648-URL" encoded bytes, then). |> The "Message-ID:" field provides a unique message identifier that |> refers to a particular version of a particular message. The |> uniqueness of the message identifier is guaranteed by the host that |> generates it (see below). This message identifier is intended to be |> machine readable and not necessarily meaningful to humans. A message |> identifier pertains to exactly one version of a particular message; |> subsequent revisions to the message each receive new message |> identifiers. | |https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322#section-3.6.4 | |If you want URLs to be human-meaningful, don't use Message-ID. | |I for one thing Mutt shouldn't invent its own, but just use a random |UUID, like so many other MUAs. I find it tremendously helpful and have started using this date-included way of doing things years ago for exactly the given reasoning. For example i have found myself finding a related thread more easily in an archive, too. In fact i wondered why noone addressed this by then, but in the end i am only an external listening here and the topic is mostly about style. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
