On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 1:07 AM, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
Magnus, * Magnus Hagander (magnus@hagander.net) wrote: > It would make the URLs actually short, but as mentioned upthread, that > wouldn't work at all if offline. So it'd be a tradeoff between those, but > so are pretty much all other options that don't include the full message-id.
This is a bit of a crazy idea, but in the new list system, couldn't we add a header which includes "our" surrogate message-id? Or possibly the entire URL to the message, and maybe the URL for the entire thread?
I'd rather not tie those systems in that tightly. I think they are much better off being de-coupled.
That said, what we could do is invent our own "id". We could either use a separate surrogate key, or we could do the sha-1 hash of the messageid. And stick that in a header, which could then be searched for both locally and remotely.