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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>
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Subject: Re: Should Message-Ids become first-class Gnus objects?
Date: 27 Sep 1996 19:15:12 +0200
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Raja R Harinath <harinath@cs.umn.edu> writes:

> There are many lists of Message-Ids that duplicate information.  For
> eg., `gnus-dup' maintains a list and an obarray of message-ids already
> seen.  `gnus-gl' maintains a list of message-ids rated.  All these are
> separate obarrays, and duplicate the message-id string.
> 
> I wonder if using a single message-id hashtb with the other facilities
> being implemented as property get/sets will be a better alternative.
> This would require a major rearchitecting of Gnus.

Well, all the different functions use a different subset of
Message-IDs, and the Message-IDs live for a shorter or longer time.  I
think trying to make One Unified Message-ID thingie could be quite
difficult.  

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen