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Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> writes:

>
> I think when a message is removed from the database, we need to know
> whether anything else (in its same thread?) refers to it.  If so, we
> should keep it around as a ghost message instead of fully removing it.
>
> does this sound like the right approach?
>

This seems right to me, but maybe Austin, in copy, can comment.

d