[Mailman-Developers] Requirements for a new archiver

[J C Lawrence]

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 17:28:50 -0500 
Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 17:08, PieterB wrote:

> When Mailman decorates a message for copying to the list, I want to be
> able to include a link to the archived message in the footer.  The
> problem is that there is little or no connection between the process
> doing the decoration and the process doing the archiving, and in fact
> the message may be posted to the list long before the archiver gets a
> crack at it.

If the URL is predictably based on the Message-ID this is not a problem.

> So I don't want to have to ask the archiver for that url.  I want
> Mailman to be able to calculate it from something unique in the
> message, and have the archiver agree on the algorithm, so that it (or
> some other translation layer) can do the mapping back to the archived
> article.  Or, Mailman should be able to calculate a unique id for the
> article and stuff that in a header for the archiver to index on.

Quite, this is how/why NNTP uses Message-IDs are unique indexing
qualifiers.

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