Re: Suggestion: Retain attachment filenames when possible

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From: Peter C. McCluskey (pcm@rahul.net)
Date: Tue Nov 26 2002 - 19:55:30 CST

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     dbooth@w3.org (David Booth) writes:
    >When an HTML document is sent to list that is maintained by hypermail, the
    >image links are broken in the archives, even if the images are also
    >included as message attachments. For example, see:
    >http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2002Nov/0083.html
    >This occurs because hypermail adds a numeric prefix "01-" to each
    >attachment filename. I assume this is done in order to insure that the
    >filenames are unique (in case the same file was attached more than once).
    >
    >It would be REALLY nice if the numeric prefix were added ONLY if the
    >attachment names were non-unique. This would make it possible to send an
    >HTML document and its images as message attachments and have them show up
    >properly in the archives.

     I've checked in some changes which should do that.

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