Posted by Flaming Corncob on 08/18/06 21:26

In article <497e6$44e62c0b$8259c69c$23743@news2.tudelft.nl>,
"Rik" <luiheidsgoeroe@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Reusing? Why? How many topics/posts do you expect? You'll have to be
> very,very,very popular to run out of integers for a unique post. And
> you shouldn't reuse them. For instance: some posts something, gets id
> 1234, and you can vies the post by viewpost.php?id=1234. It is some
> usefull information, and some people link to it. Later on, the post is
> deleted. No problem, in your code you take care of that: you inform
> the user the post is no longer there. Would you reuse the number, the
> link works again, and will show a post that has absolutely nothing to
> do with the first post. People following the old links won't think
> very highly of you forum.

Never did occur to me. That's why I post.. to ring in some sense.

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