On 20 Jul 2007, at 15:26, Barry Warsaw wrote: >> BTW lurker gives all messages an ID which is 3 parts separated by >> periods. The first part is a date field - ie 20070720, the second >> part is the receive time, UTC, as 6 digits, and the final part >> is some form of hex id. The nice part is if you quote just the >> first (or first 2) parts of message ID you get messages around that >> time... > > Obviously Mailman can't know the second and third parts so it can't > use them in its list copies. I dislike using YYYMMDD because of the > high number of collisions.
Its used as part of a UID, but has the nice feature of allowing easy queries as to other messages at that time. If the archiver is local you also have the information for part 2 of the UID - lurker takes it from the From_ line. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ] _______________________________________________ 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
