[Mailman-Developers] Improving the archives

[Dale Newfield]

Jeff Breidenbach wrote:
> In addition, Barry was talking about concocting a unique
> identifier from the Date field and Message-ID. I'm not a big fan of
> this idea, because the date field comes from the mail user agent
> and is often wildly corrupt; e;g; coming from 100 years in the future.

Oh--I was assuming the Date to which he was referring was the current 
timestamp at which mailman was processing the message.  I was going to 
say that this guarantees uniqueness, but I guess there are parallel 
mailman implementations where more than one machine/processor are all 
serving the same list, and then two different machines/processors might 
wind up with identical timestamps while processing two different messages.

-Dale