Re: [Nmh-workers] A script for threading

[Matthew Hannigan]

On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 07:57:16AM +1100, Joel Reicher wrote:
> [ .. ]
> potentially many records (sequences) to update. Without getting too
> whacky, about the only fast way I can think to do sequences is by having
> them as a list of inodes.

Everytime I've seen inodes exposed at the user level,
there are tears eventually.  Some filesystems inodes
aren't stable, sometimes people move (copy+delete) the
mail etc, etc.

So please not!

Matt