On January 16, 2002 at 14:55, J C Lawrence wrote: > > If you will be using the same MH directories as input, and you > > have not deleted any files, you should get the same numbers > > assigned for each message. > > Which is precisely what happens (and I'm very glad of it). I'm just > hoping that it won't change in future MHonArc versions as I'm about > to depend on that behaviour rather heavily.
The only major change that might occur is changing from a numeric system of identifying messages to using message-ids. I.e. The filenames would be the message-id of the message. This would allow links to not go stale, or change, if an archive is re-created. Since this requires some restructuring of the code, it may not be done for sometime. And if done, it should probably be a configurable option since some users like the numbering system and for some operating systems, the filenaming limitations may not make using message-ids as filenames possible. --ewh
