[Mailman-Developers] Improving the archives

[Ian Eiloart]

--On 2 October 2007 22:47:35 -0400 Barry Warsaw <barry at list.org> wrote:

> One question: should the angle brackets on the Message-ID  be part of
> the hash or not?  I think they should, or IOW, the entire value of
> the Message-ID header is taken as the hash, though they should be
> stripped off if using the Message-ID in any kind of archive query.
> I'm open to suggestions though... comments?

Mathematically, the two solutions are equivalent for valid headers, aren't 
they? OK, the hashes will be different, but only in a trivial sense.

Technically, I imagine, it's going to be easier to handle bogus headers if 
you just hash the entire header. For example, what do you do if some piece 
of crapware gives you a message with a header missing the angle brackets? 
Or that adds something outside angle brackets? Or that includes a 
right-angle bracket in the message-id itself?

You don't have to think about any of those situations if you either (A) 
reject the message or (B) encode the entire header.

-- 
Ian Eiloart
IT Services, University of Sussex
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