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From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: Re: brain dump detached/external index so far...
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 20:55:46 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200914205546.GA28639@dcvr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200914160114.kdwed3rkb52ibal4@chatter.i7.local>

Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> I think several virtual inboxes makes more sense than always one global 
> search, as people may want to search something like "all Linux kernel 
> discussions" or "all gcc/compiler discussions". There could be different 
> frontends to indicate which search is running -- e.g.  
> "kernel.lore.kernel.org" vs. "gcc.lore.kernel.org".

It might be better to have one big index, still.  Groups can be
Xapian terms which are defined/redefined as-needed for filtering.
It would be helpful when compiler bugs are found in the course of
kernel development.

> As an off-side grumbling, we found out that AWS SES (their email 
> processing service) will force-rewrite all message IDs without any 
> option to prevent this. So, a single message with multiple recipients 
> will arrive with a unique Message-ID to each one of them.
> 
> This is so broken, it blows my mind, but AWS doesn't care to fix it.

Eeeep.  I wonder if there's some benefit for Amazon in doing this...
I can understand why centralized communications providers
would Embrace, Extend, Extinguish email; but I didn't think
they'd have anything to gain by making email worse.
(I'm still anti-monopolist, anyways)

      reply	other threads:[~2020-09-14 20:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-13  6:55 brain dump detached/external index so far Eric Wong
2020-09-14 16:01 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2020-09-14 20:55   ` Eric Wong [this message]

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