[Mailman-Developers] Google Summer of Code: Integration of Search Code

[Barry Warsaw]

On Mar 30, 2012, at 02:18 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>> I suspect that there will be plenty of mailing lists that get fed messages
>> from programs, e.g. think vcs -commit diff lists.  Those programs can also
>> be buggy, but again I'd prefer that Mailman not compromise on this issue
>> for their sake.
>
>I predict you will eventually lose on this.  That's not an argument
>for changing, of course. :-)

Possibly, but let's go down fighting. :)

>> The point being that messages that flow through Mailman will have that hash
>> in the message URLs in the Archived-At header and possibly in the decorated
>> footers.  An archiver should certainly provide an interface to look up a
>> message by pure Message-ID or the hash.  The hash is just a scheme to
>> regularize the message id and is a tiny fraction more user-friendly
>> (because of its limited alphabet and manageable, known-in-advance length).
>
>I would say that's actually quite significant, because the trash that
>I've observed in message-ids is varied, to be polite.  It will be nice
>to be able to avoid URL-escaping, RFC 2047 soft line breaks, and all
>the rest.

Exactly!

-Barry