On Thu, 20 Aug 1998 20:11:49 -0700
Earl Hood<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On August 20, 1998 at 17:21, J C Lawrence wrote:
>> Okay, perhaps I'm being dense here. Are you saying that MHonArc
>> will read the contents of previously generated mail*html files for
>> MSG ID strings to do reference threading?
> Sort of, but not the way you think.
>> Surely MHonArc checks the MSG ID strings found in incoming message
>> bodies against its DB of MSG ID's, and since both are unmunged (the
>> original message source and the DB) such reference threading works
>> correctly. The munging then affects only the post-MHonArc
>> generated HTML files -- something that MHonArc pays no attention to
>> from there on out in its operations.
> Yes on first sentence. No on second. If MHonArc tags a message for
> updating (ie. an existing message page must be updated due to an
> add), it will scan for message-ids in the page and check them
> against the new message-ids that came in. If there is a match,
> MHonArc makes the message-id a link.
Oh, I see, sorta. Thanks.
Under what exact circumstances will MHonArc attempt to update an
existant message page? Surely for an -add where the MSG ID is a dupe,
MHonArc ignores the "new" message?
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