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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Thread tracking for bugs
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Andrew Suffield |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Thread tracking for bugs |
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Wed, 2 Jun 2004 16:58:05 +0100 |
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On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 03:24:12PM +0000, Julian T. J. Midgley wrote:
> In article <address@hidden>,
> Andrew Suffield <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> >
> >On a related note, I have now caught this mailing list delivering
> >mails out of order by a margin of at least several hours. If your
> >reply is delivered to bugs.gnuarch.org before the mail which you were
> >replying to, expect things to go confusingly wrong. There's nothing I
> >can do about that.
>
> Theoretically at least, you could implement a queue on to which BugGoo
> sticks those emails which are BugGoo replies to message-ids that it's not yet
> seen; the queue can be examined periodically to see if the predecessor
> has turned up, and action taken only when it has.
This will fail in the presence of partially cross-posted
threads. Which is the problem really - you can't tell the difference
between a mail that just hasn't been delivered yet, and a mail that
never will be.
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