On 2021-01-11 08:22:08 +0000, Eric Wong wrote: > Derek Martin <inva...@pizzashack.org> wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 09, 2021 at 10:54:28PM +0000, Eric Wong wrote: > > > Hi Remco, > > > > > > So I'm looking at 9da4e6e11e7037668d0ca7e8f5d6773d26e379ac > > > (I noticed this in mutt 2.0.2 on FreeBSD) > > > > > > This is a bad change > > > > You should have just stopped there. This is a bad change, as I argued > > when it was originally discussed. Given that there was neither > > agreement about how to change it, even amongst those who thought it > > should change, nor any concrete example of harm caused by the original > > format, it should never have been changed.
I agree, > > This thread is a good example of why you don't arbtrarily change > > things that have worked the same way for 20 years without a very good > > reason: You have NO IDEA what the change will break or how many > > people will be affected by the breakage. BTW, it broke one of my scripts (which used the Message-Id to identify messages and sort them by date, all among my messages exclusively). [...] > Fwiw, I concur the PID in Message-IDs was a bad idea since it > does unnecessarily leak information about system usage. I'm no > security expert, though I seem to remember kernel patches that > would randomize PID allocation in Linux. I don't think there's much leak, mainly the fact whether the user restarts Mutt or not, but I doubt that's interesting info. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
