On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 3:41 AM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > The post could be replaced by a placeholder "This message deleted' > > and the >> >> archive regenerated. That changes the counter for every message after > > > A placeholder should avoid that.
I suspect (though don't know for certain) that just regenerating the archive without touching the mbox file will change the numbering. Steven's original post mentioned two very different basenames (468598 and 481374). As I indicated in an earlier response, those might be generated from an ever-growing counter, not just a shift as articles slide one closer to the first one of the month. So, you'd have to edit the mbox file carefully (might need to edit headers) and also edit the generated HTML for the message. Neither is an insurmountable task, but both are going to be more error-prone than just cutting out an entire message and regenerating the archive. I will pass along your suggestion to the postmaster folks (I don't get involved that that level - it's mostly the folks who directly maintain the Postfix setup who do this), though. They are a generally pretty responsive bunch. Skip -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list