From: Daniel Stenberg (Daniel.Stenberg@sth.frontec.se)
Date: Wed May 05 1999 - 06:29:47 CDT
On Tue, 4 May 1999, Paul Haldane wrote:
> Any more thoughts on what (if anything) we should do with messages with
> duplicate message ids?
>
> My inclination is to stick with what we do now - don't try to add the
> duplicates to the web archive but put out a warning message to that a
> human can fix things by hand.
I think we could start with trying to think of reasons why this happens in
the first place. How do you add several mails to the arcive using the same
Message-ID? Does it ever actually occur that two different mails have the
same ID? If it does, perhaps we should take the check a bit further and just
make sure that if the subject and from lines are identical too we skip it. If
they differ we can modify the ID so that'll become different. I'm not really
sure if we want this though, or how we could present this in the document for
the humans. If there is a reply to the mail we change ID for, it'll end
looking like a reply to the first mail since that is then the only mail with
that ID... Oh well, I guess we should just decide what behaviour we want and
go with that. We can't possibly always do the right thing here.
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Daniel Stenberg - http://www.fts.frontec.se/~dast
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