From: Jose Kahan (jose.kahan@w3.org)
Date: Mon Aug 20 2001 - 11:32:28 CDT
Hello PEter,
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 03:43:28PM -0700, Peter C. McCluskey wrote:
>
> Note that it is now possible to delete messages (in the sense of making
> them invisible to normal browsing) via the "deleted" option without
> changing URLs.
Yes, I saw this option. Pretty interesting. I didn't yet look at it in
detail, but I'm not sure if it's erasing the attachments associated to
a deleted message. It does delete that file that corresponds to that banned
message.
>
> >I think I'll also need to store in a dbm file some relationship between
> >the filename and the number we were using before, so that we can search it
> >easily. This is not yet very clear, because I am just starting work on it.
>
> I'm uncertain whether I would want dependence on a dbm file to be the
> default mode of operation. I presume you would make this optional, at
> least when it is first introduced?
Yes, it will be optional, so that only people who are interested in the
feature can use it.
-jose