[Mailman-Developers] Requirements for a new archiver

[Brad Knowles]

At 12:41 AM -0500 2003/10/28, J C Lawrence wrote:

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

	Problem is that client-assigned message-ids are not guaranteed 
unique.  Too many people are using RFC 1918 private addressing space, 
and if the machine doesn't know it's own name, then it stuffs in just 
the IP address for that portion.  Everything else could quite 
feasibly collide, and you'd wind up with multiple non-unique 
message-ids.

	You need a guaranteed unique id to be used as a primary index field.

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