Re: Not ready for 8.3

From: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: aidan(at)highrise(dot)ca
Cc: ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org, magnus(at)hagander(dot)net, stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc, alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com, jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com, bruce(at)momjian(dot)us, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Not ready for 8.3
Date: 2007-05-16 11:20:16
Message-ID: 20070516.202016.95897184.t-ishii@sraoss.co.jp
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> * Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org> [070515 21:19]:
>
> > As I proposed for many times, why don't we add message number to each
> > subject line in mail? For example like this:
> >
> > [HACKERS: 12345] Re: Not ready for 8.3
> >
> > This way, we could always obtain stable (logical) pointer, without
> > reling on particular archival infrastructure.
>
> Isn't that what the "Message-Id" field is for?
>
> http://news.gmane.org/find-root(dot)php?message_id=20070516(dot)101643(dot)94564776(dot)t-ishii(at)sraoss(dot)co(dot)jp
> a.

Maybe. However I think "subject-sequence" has some advantages over
Message-Id:

- Easy to identify. Message-Id may not appear on some MUA with default
setting

- More handy than lengthy message Id

- Easy to detect messages not delivered, by knowing that the sequence
number was skipped
--
Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan

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