Re: Commit fest?

Greg Smith wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Mar 2008, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > Oh, what I would really like is to be able to pull up
> > archives.postgresql.org emails based on message id so I can link to the
> > entire thread. Unfortunately, it doesn't work there, nor does Google or
> > any of the other Postgres email archive sites.
>
> This is something I've been looking into my own organization. The message
> ids are at the start of the archive web pages. For example your e-mail
> here I'm replying to begins like this if you look at the page source:
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-03/msg00554.php
> <!-- MHonArc v2.6.16 -->
> <!--X-Subject: Re: Commit fest? -->
> <!--X-From-R13: Pehpr [bzwvna <oehprNzbzwvna.hf> -->
> <!--X-Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:19:33 &#45;0300 (ADT) -->
> <!--X-Message-Id: 200803170219(dot)m2H2JRQ11863(at)momjian(dot)us -->
> <!--X-Content-Type: text/plain -->
> <!--X-Reference: 20681(dot)1205719990(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us -->
> <!--X-Head-End-->
>
> I was thinking of writing something that scraped the archives building a
> lookup table out of this information. What would be nice is if the
> X-Message-Id and X-Reference were both put into the regular HTML for
> future archived messages so that it's more likely tools like Google could
> search based on them. A brief glance at the MHonArc documentation
> suggests that could be run to re-covert any existing messages that are
> still available in order to add to those even.

Yep, also you can pull my comments by using the message id, e.g.:

http://js-kit.com/rss/momjian.us/msgid-1195396974(dot)4217(dot)13(dot)camel(at)ebony(dot)site

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