Re: Filename guarantees

[J C Lawrence <claw@kanga.nu>]

On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 09:41:05 -0800 
Earl Hood <ehood@hydra.acs.uci.edu> wrote:

> The only major change that might occur is changing from a numeric
> system of identifying messages to using message-ids.  I.e.  The
> filenames would be the message-id of the message.  This would
> allow links to not go stale, or change, if an archive is
> re-created.

Umm, err, ooooo!  Please!  Pretty please!  Please sir!

> Since this requires some restructuring of the code, it may not be
> done for sometime.  And if done, it should probably be a
> configurable option since some users like the numbering system and
> for some operating systems, the filenaming limitations may not
> make using message-ids as filenames possible.

Good point.

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