> Well there isn't a good reason why not, and there is already a counter
> of sorts in the Message ID in the header, but it's not very human
> readable.
>
> Surely the list management software keeps a count of how many posts have
> been sent out to the group, it's just a case of reading/writing that
> digit into a header line.
digests are generally numbered, while regular postings are passed thru the
email list server systems relatively unscathed (other than appending the tag
at the bottom). Majordomo at least doesn't keep any sort of counters. I
guess it could be modified to do so, but this could get messy on a large
busy server (afaik, multiple messages can be in the queue at once getting
handled by parallel processes, so updating this counter would have to be
done on an 'atomic' basis... preventing deadlock issues etc complicates
matters)
-jrp
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