Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > Decibel! wrote:
> >> Moving to -www
> >>
> >> On Feb 9, 2008, at 11:27 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> >>> Yeah, it happens that way for me too. The other huge, huge problem with
> >>> it is the lack of stability of URLs for the items in the list, which
> >>> makes it difficult to identify which item you're talking about.
> >>
> >> Wasn't someone going to look into having the mailing list generate a
> >> header that would be universally unique and un-changing?
> >
> > The archive URLs *are* stable. It's the ones in Bruces patch-queue that
> > aren't, and that's because he sometimes deletes mail. In the archives we
> > don't delete, so they stay stable.
>
> Still, it would be pretty useful to have a facility for searching
> messages by Message-Id (which are unique and immutable). If the "patch
> queue" consisted solely of Message-Ids, it would be pretty easy and
> quick to locate the exact message in the archives.
If the patch queue was only message-ids it would be pretty hard to
understand without clicking on every message. Perhaps someone can add a
message-id search link to every email using mhonarc.
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