On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > Skip Montanaro wrote: >> >> The way this is done, is >> that the message is removed from the underlying mbox file, and the >> archive regenerated. That changes the counter for every message after >> that point > > > Would it help to replace the message with a stub > instead of deleting it altogether?
I had the same thought, but apparently not, according to the page Peter Otten linked to: http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/Stable+URLs ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list