Re: Problem with search by message-id / Archived-At hashes
Hi Jeff, On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 6:16 AM, Jeff Breidenbach wrote: > You found a bug. In The Mail Archive's hash calculation, there is an > incorrect urlib.unquote run on the message id. This is escaping the minus > sign, and therefore calculating based on an incorrect message id. Ah, so the small sample was big enough :-) > Stay tuned for the re-index (probably this coming weekend) and thank you for > the excellent bug report. You're more than welcome - in the end it is me (and all the other folks who requested such a feature (direkt links to archived posts) who benefit from this :-) I might get the thanks for adding the feature to our lists, but without mail-archive.com it wouldn't be possible at all, so big thanks for the great service to you! Also thanks for the insight on the gossip-list server :-) (seems I have been too impatient when subscribing with the gmail address and hence double posted) ciao Christian -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
Re: Problem with search by message-id / Archived-At hashes
You found a bug. In The Mail Archive's hash calculation, there is an incorrect urlib.unquote run on the message id. This is escaping the minus sign, and therefore calculating based on an incorrect message id. We're going to have to regenerate the entire message-id index after the bug is fixed. That will take a while, but we will prioritize recent data. [email protected] [email protected] This doesn't affect you, but there is also a secondary bug where messages archived in the last few minutes of the day (GMT -0800) are not having their message id indexed. It's a very small fraction of the messages, and I am just mentioning it here so I don't forget to fix it at the same time. Stay tuned for the re-index (probably this coming weekend) and thank you for the excellent bug report. It goes without saying, but I'll say it anyway, do not write code to work around this flaw. The fix must be on our end. Jeff
Re: Problem with search by message-id / Archived-At hashes
The gossip malling list uses a somewhat obscure and very limited list server called Enemies of Carlotta. Another fun fact is it runs on a 5 watt NSLU2, which has a grand total of 32 megabytes of memory. That's less memory than the very first hardware iteration of The Mail Archive, which was a 90 megahertz Pentium pumped up with 80 megabytes of SDRAM back in 1998. But I digress. We'll switch to gossip over to Mailman 3 once it is ready. As for the Archived-At: header, this is great news! You may be the first entity actually using the feature for real, so I'm delighted and thanks for the bug report. We'll take a look and see what is wrong as soon as practical, which is probably this coming weekend. Jeff
