Re: [Mailman-Developers] Improving the archives

2007-11-03 Thread Jeff Breidenbach
>but if you can trust yourself to generate them, consecutive >integers provide minimal, order-preserving, perfect hashing, too! Hmm this sounds pretty sensible to me. Jeff ___ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Improving the archives

2007-11-03 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Craig Loomis writes: >Globally unique IDs, hashed IDs, etc., are very appealing from > various CS-y and techie points of view, but are simply not memorable > to humans or knowable by dumb external programs. I think as much, or > more, effort should be put into delivering a straightfo