On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:00:52 +0100 Brad Knowles <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org> wrote:

At 12:01 AM -0800 2006-01-17, J C Lawrence wrote:

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Long time no talk. Whaddya think of adding message_id as a replaceable token for footers and the like? This would allow footers to be constructed which direct URL-reference their own post in an NNTP archive.

I like the concept, but the only problem is that message-ids are not guaranteed unique. I'd like to see a guaranteed unique id be generated on the system, and then have that used as the new message-id, displayable in the footers, used as the index reference in the mailing list archives, etc....

While true (the non-guarantee), in working across a quarter million messages in the archives of my various lists I've hit less than a score of duplicate or missing Message-IDs. That's a small enough problem that I'm willing to just eat the conflicts.

-- J C Lawrence They said, "You have a blue guitar, ---------(*) You do not play things as they are." claw@kanga.nu The man replied, "Things as they are http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Are changed upon the blue guitar."