Re: Change Message-ID generation to be more unique and leak less information

2021-01-10 Thread Derek Martin
On Sat, Jan 09, 2021 at 10:54:28PM +, Eric Wong wrote: > Hi Remco, > > So I'm looking at 9da4e6e11e7037668d0ca7e8f5d6773d26e379ac > (I noticed this in mutt 2.0.2 on FreeBSD) > > This is a bad change You should have just stopped there. This is a bad change, as I argued when it was originally

[PATCH] restore YYYYmmddHHMMSS in Message-IDs, make URL-safe

2021-01-10 Thread Eric Wong
When citing URLs for messages in public mail archives, the mmddHHMMSS provides crucial information to readers which can be useful without having to open the cited URL. Since these messages are cited by others from a public mail archive (e.g. in commit messages), they are likely legitimate and

Re: Change Message-ID generation to be more unique and leak less information

2021-01-10 Thread Eric Wong
Remco Rijnders wrote: > On Sat, Jan 09, 2021 at 10:54:28PM +, Eric wrote in > <20210109225428.GA27462@dcvr>: > > This is a bad change for public mail archives which use > > https://$SOMETHING_SOMETHING/$MSGID for robustness across > > different public mail archives and hosts. > > > Having the