Randal,
The sample message from [DEUS Conosco] helped me find a somewhat subtle bug in the sorting engine at mail-archive. Specifically, before mail-archive starts a new list (correct behaviour in this case), it looks very hard to find out if there is already an existing list. The fuzzy_match routine is part of this process, and it gave a false positive. Specifically, it was triggering on: a@b with candidates a@x and y@b The fuzzy matching routine is supposed to only trigger on things like: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with candidate a@b This bug in the sorting algorithm only shows up during list additions in combination situations -- when independent usernames and domains in the email separately match existing lists. As the service gets larger and larger, this bug becomes more likely to trigger. I have fixed the algorithm by adding a simple check (it required adding about five lines of code) and the test message you sent me now runs correctly. Thank you very much for finding and reporting this problem -- I think it's been about a year since I last changed the sorting engine for mail-archive. Cheers, Jeff _______________________________________________ Gossip mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jab.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gossip
