Oct. 28, 2003
5:49 p.m.
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 00:41, J C Lawrence wrote:
If the URL is predictably based on the Message-ID this is not a problem.
Quite, this is how/why NNTP uses Message-IDs are unique indexing qualifiers.
Yep, and we'd have to do the same thing (ensure that Message-IDs are unique). Note that we sometimes get shit from people who complain about Mailman's NNTP posting code modifying Message-IDs to adhere to the stricter NNTP requirements. But Mailman can't rely on the good graces of remote mail tools to ensure globally unique Message-IDs, so it has to check and munge if it gets a dup (or, it's within it's right to treat a dup /as/ a dup, e.g. discarding it).
-Barry