[Mailman-Developers] Requirements for a new archiver

[Chuq Von Rospach]

On Oct 29, 2003, at 9:41 AM, Brad Knowles wrote:

> 	In the case of a database, it is a hard requirement.  A primary index 
> field must be guaranteed unique.  There is absolutely no way around 
> this issue.

which is why it many times makes sense to generate your own. Consider, 
say, identifying all messages with an MD5 hash of the message.... then 
use that for all of your link generating and access work.