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prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:

> I think I should point out that Kai and I seem to be advocating
> slightly different things.  Kai's suggestion, AIUI, is to use
> Message-ID header fields as article IDs everywhere.  My suggestion is
> to let backends decide how to identify articles, with the only
> requirement being that identifiers should be eq if they are supposed
> to identify the same article.  (This includes the possibility of
> symbols whose names are Message-IDs, but does not require that.)

Actually, I should be advocating the same as you are, even though
what I said doesn't match this.

Article identifiers should be an opaque object, an abstract data
type.
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