From: Tom von Alten (tom_vonalten@boi.hp.com)
Date: Fri May 07 1999 - 17:22:07 CDT
On 22 April, 1999, Craig Summerhill wrote:
> Since then, I have converted tens (perhaps hundreds) of thousands
> of messages in old archives and have yet to experience one instance
> where hypermail had to alter the name to make it unique. I don't
> think I've got a single example of hypermail being forced to add
> a character to create a unique filename...
Happens all the time where I live. For example, I routinely send out an
attachment with the same name on a weekly basis, as a shared list of action
items gets updated after a teleconference.
It's not a problem with our implementation, because we use a subdirectory
tree; attachments to message NNNN.html are put in .attachments/NNNN/
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