On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 17:51:27 -0500 Barry Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 13:30, J C Lawrence wrote:
>> 2) Message IDs are not guaranteed globally unique, but the collision >> rate can be manageable/acceptable in a large number of deployment >> cases. > Ah, which reminds me, elaborating on my strawman, the answers to "when > should Mailman rewrite Message-ID on posts" should be: Never, Only to > resolve duplicates, Always. Does that mean that we keep a database of all Message-IDs that all lists on that host have ever seen? If so, what happens when a single message is CC'ed to multiple lists? NetNews servers require global uniqueness across all newsgroups. I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that we have to rewrite all Message-IDs whenever the internal archive is enabled. -- 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
