On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 1:57 AM, Alvaro
Herrera<alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>> I'm mildly surprised to learn that this is unintentional... I use it
>> semi-regularly as a way of getting a shorter and more legible URL for
>> a message in the archives.
>
> I guess we could provide both. I vaguely remember someone asking how to
> get this URL some time ago.
The message-id url is far more useful generally. It's guaranteed not
to change if we reprocess the mail archives -- even if we change mail
archiving systems altogether. More importantly it can be used to track
down the message even if the mail archives are down or inaccessible.
The msg02010.php style url is what you get from our search engine or
index listing. I didn't think it was hard to get these urls. How are
you *not* getting one these urls in the first place?
--
greg
http://mit.edu/~gsstark/resume.pdf