Re: Filename guarantees

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

On January 18, 2002 at 09:01, "Mathias Koerber" 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?).

I'm inclined to ignore this problem.

--ewh