[CC'ing listmaster, perhaps it is of some interest] On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 09:01:36AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > >>>>> "Wouter" == Wouter Verhelst <wouter@grep.be> writes: > > Wouter> On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 03:54:39AM +1000, Pascal Hakim wrote: > >> Ideally we'd remove that stuff from our archives, but I'm > >> unwilling to do so if it means that URLs to messages in our mail > >> archive changes. > > Wouter> Does it? If so, that would sound like a bug in the used > Wouter> archive software to me. No? > > I suspect deleting stuff generally requires rebuilding the archive > from scratch, which means the messages are renumbered in the archive. > > Not sure how this could be done differently, you need someway of > identifying if a particular source message is the same as a given HTML > message. > > Maybe message-id could be used, first you need to strip duplicate > messages containing the same message-id though (eg. if same message > posted multiple times), these are probably unwanted anyway (unless you > want to track the Received lines). there's also an header like that: X-Mailing-List: <debian-devel@lists.debian.org> archive/latest/171020 could that number (apparently incremental per-mailinglist) be used to archive the messages? perhaps combined with the current month/year as an added bonus we can easily construct urls pointing to messages without actually browse lists.d.o and cut-n-paste urls (also having lists.d.o/message-id redirecting to the correct message would be great, assuming there are no duplicated message-ids) kind regards, filippo -- Filippo Giunchedi GNU/PG key: 6B79D401 Random signature below: I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. -- Groucho Marx
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