On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:32:14PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> >> They are not stable. The items should point to the archives, which are
> >> supposedly more stable. (I had already fixed one item in PatchStatus
> >> this morning). Really it would be much nicer to have links using the
> >> Message-Id but I doubt that's at all doable.
> >
> > hrm - I see so is there a particular reason for that behaviour ?
>
> They're stable until Bruce removes something from the queue. When
> something is removed, it's renumbered.
>
> It's how mhonarc works. It's the same with the archives - if we delete a
> mail, they get renumbered. So we never should delete, we should just
> blank out, but it has happened a couple of times.
Isn't there any other archiver we could use? The lack of URL stability
in mhonarc is bad enough, but the cross-month issue is just horrible.
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