Re: Filename guarantees

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

On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 09:01:04 +0800 
Mathias Koerber <mathias@koerber.org> 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.

> I might also throw in that the M-ID is intended to be unique per
> message, but that in some cases (non-compliant, broken mailers or
> list-software) it might not turn out to be, so MHonArc should
> provide a means of detecting if a M-ID is already used as an
> identifier (filename) and then select a replacement one (add a
> suffix?).

Given that MHonArc currently generates locally unique Message-IDs
for messages without them < i doubt this is a problem.

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