On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 17:28:50 -0500 Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> wrote:
On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 17:08, PieterB wrote:
When Mailman decorates a message for copying to the list, I want to be able to include a link to the archived message in the footer. The problem is that there is little or no connection between the process doing the decoration and the process doing the archiving, and in fact the message may be posted to the list long before the archiver gets a crack at it.
If the URL is predictably based on the Message-ID this is not a problem.
So I don't want to have to ask the archiver for that url. I want Mailman to be able to calculate it from something unique in the message, and have the archiver agree on the algorithm, so that it (or some other translation layer) can do the mapping back to the archived article. Or, Mailman should be able to calculate a unique id for the article and stuff that in a header for the archiver to index on.
Quite, this is how/why NNTP uses Message-IDs are unique indexing qualifiers.
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