[Mailman-Developers] Improving the archives

[Nigel Metheringham]

On 20 Jul 2007, at 15:26, Barry Warsaw wrote:
>> BTW lurker gives all messages an ID which is 3 parts separated by
>> periods. The first part is a date field - ie 20070720, the second
>> part is the receive time, UTC, as 6 digits, and the final part
>> is some form of hex id. The nice part is if you quote just the
>> first (or first 2) parts of message ID you get messages around that
>> time...
>
> Obviously Mailman can't know the second and third parts so it can't
> use them in its list copies.  I dislike using YYYMMDD because of the
> high number of collisions.

Its used as part of a UID, but has the nice feature of allowing easy
queries as to other messages at that time.

If the archiver is local you also have the information for part 2 of the
UID - lurker takes it from the From_ line.

Nigel.
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[ Nigel Metheringham           Nigel.Metheringham at InTechnology.co.uk ]
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