-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Jul 9, 2007, at 11:09 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> John A. Martin writes: > >> In the absence of a Message-ID >> on an outgoing mail message many if not most MTAs will add one. Why >> not let Mailman anticipate the need to add a Message-ID when >> archiving >> the message rather than leaving it to the outgoing MTA? > > Quite. > > My reason for saying "last resort" is simply that this is not > predictable to third parties. Eg, I send you (a non-subscriber) a > message with CC and no Message-ID. You'd like to find the thread in > the archives. You may as well just do a linear search on that month's > threads. Yep, and I say "tough". Let John complain to Stephen to fix his MTA to add those Message-IDs so Mailman doesn't have to. ;) > An URL based on an MD5 of the message body in theory would work, but > in the presence of non-ASCII bodies, structured MIME, ML digests, and > various MTA autoconversions, that seems fragile. Agreed, and it would do no better, in fact worse, than base32(sha1 (message-id + date)) - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBRqCuW3EjvBPtnXfVAQKx/AP9EUxDQmp1tiCEqJqVSFWeicq/9lThnMZN 58UUEPA47wPa1SJSk6z7+0vSfqTskwO1Frnn8OJ6X+MJAxCX4Hr86uBOnK9XW2AK byCfeYHBdapGlrsxmPd0so+FFJODWWRu7+yyKTw6ApDwVevatEEIMPlZkMALMv5S axC5ttHfR2E= =c0pw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp