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reproducible URLs

1998-09-02 22:56:45

I had been wracking my brains, trying to think of what could
possibly be improved with the wonderful MHonArc program.

And then it hit me. When I use MhonArc, I tend to think of it as a
renderer - I feed it email and it renders a bunch of HTML files.
On occasion, I will change something in the rcfile (or whatnot)
and rerender the all the email messages.

Now sometimes that results in what was msg00587.html to turn into
msg00560.html. Not a big deal, except that it might leave a dozen
major internet search engines (and my little minor search engine) with
a bad idea of what is where, at least until the pages can be
re-indexed.

So, one potential feature for the future might be an option to use
reproducible filenames for messges. Like naming the file after the MD5
checksum of a message, or the message ID, or something else that is
statistically likely to be unique.

Anyway, it's just a thought I wanted to throw out. It would be yet
another stripe of icing on a wonderful cake.

Jeff

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