In article <mailman.17551.1420862015.18130.python-l...@python.org>, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Gregory Ewing ><greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: >> Skip Montanaro wrote: >>> >>> The way this is done, is >>> that the message is removed from the underlying mbox file, and the >>> archive regenerated. That changes the counter for every message after >>> that point >> >> >> Would it help to replace the message with a stub >> instead of deleting it altogether? > >I had the same thought, but apparently not, according to the page >Peter Otten linked to: > >http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/Stable+URLs
Knowing that the source is an mbox file, I don't need to follow that link to conclude that one is not very inventive. It suffices to replace the content of the message by a repetition of 'xxxx\n'. Maybe also the sender and the subject. > >ChrisA -- Albert van der Horst, UTRECHT,THE NETHERLANDS Economic growth -- being exponential -- ultimately falters. albert@spe&ar&c.xs4all.nl &=n http://home.hccnet.nl/a.w.m.van.der.horst -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
