On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 17:28:50 -0500 Barry Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 17:08, PieterB wrote:
> When Mailman decorates a message for copying to the list, I want to be > able to include a link to the archived message in the footer. The > problem is that there is little or no connection between the process > doing the decoration and the process doing the archiving, and in fact > the message may be posted to the list long before the archiver gets a > crack at it. If the URL is predictably based on the Message-ID this is not a problem. > So I don't want to have to ask the archiver for that url. I want > Mailman to be able to calculate it from something unique in the > message, and have the archiver agree on the algorithm, so that it (or > some other translation layer) can do the mapping back to the archived > article. Or, Mailman should be able to calculate a unique id for the > article and stuff that in a header for the archiver to index on. Quite, this is how/why NNTP uses Message-IDs are unique indexing qualifiers. -- J C Lawrence ---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. [EMAIL PROTECTED] He lived as a devil, eh? http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live. _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers
