Re: Filename guarantees

[Earl Hood <ehood@hydra.acs.uci.edu>]

On January 17, 2002 at 15:37, J C Lawrence wrote:

> 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!

FYI, message annotations are stored by using the message-id.  It
has the nice side-effect that if you re-create an archive, annotations
for messages are preserved.

--ewh