On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Barry Warsaw <ba...@list.org> wrote: > On Apr 08, 2012, at 01:11 PM, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > >>I would propose a slightly different scheme for converting messages to stable >>URIs.. >> >>If we create our ID by concatenation of some hash and a part of the date, >>then the mail server need remember only those messages that fall in the same >>date-sensitive part of the namespace. It can "forget" about ancient history. > > We had a very lengthy discussion about the hash a year or so ago, when the > current algorithm was agreed upon. I'm too swamped at the moment to dig up > the links, but look for input from Jeff Breidenbach and Jeff Marshall.
I believe it's the thread including this message: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/email-sig/2012-January/000883.html I don't really see the point of not storing all the IDs, anyway. A million message IDs isn't even going to take up a gigabyte! (I think it's reasonable to reject a 1000-byte Message-ID as an attack, don't you?) Anybody who's running an archive that receives unique messages in mega-message units presumably has enough resources that they can afford the odd gigabyte (heck, even in RAM ;-) even if not all the messages are going to be stored in the archive due to expiration policies or whatever. _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 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://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
