On August 20, 1998 at 09:50, J C Lawrence wrote:
> > Careful with post-processing; you do not want to mangle message-ids.
>
> MSG ID's seems a specious case as all the MSG ID's would be
> identically munged, retaining referential correctness.
It is a problem. MHonArc would not know about the munging, so it
will not be able to hyperlink message-ids when messages are added
that are referenced by other messages. The munging would have to be
embedded into MHonArc so it knows how to match the ids properly.
> A possibly
> more signigicant concern is that the post processing resets the time
> stamps on the touched files, removing (potentially) MHonArc's Date:
> header based time stamping. This can screw some search tools.
Yep.
--ewh
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