[Mailman-Developers] From the creation of a ThreadID

[Barry Warsaw]

On Apr 05, 2012, at 05:29 PM, Terri Oda wrote:

>I haven't read the whole thread so maybe someone else has mentioned this, but
>we may want to take advantage of the dynamic sublists code for this, since it
>produces "conversations" or "topics" sublists and already has to generate and
>maintain a code for each.  Rather than messageids these are meant to be a bit
>more human-readable, so they're often words with numbers suffixed.  But yeah;
>there exists code for Mailman 2.1 that might be reusable here, and there's a
>GSoC project on the table to port to 3.0 so this might be a thing that we
>could pass to the archive utility.

Don't forget too that we have the Stable URL proposal, which turns arbitrary
Message-IDs into 32 upper-case ASCII letter and digit character base 32
hashes.

-Barry