Re: List Message Footer

From: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com
Cc: bruce(at)momjian(dot)us, scrappy(at)hub(dot)org, alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com, david(at)dawninglight(dot)net, pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: List Message Footer
Date: 2009-03-18 03:33:16
Message-ID: 20090318.123316.45181164.t-ishii@sraoss.co.jp
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> > I think the footer is full enough and I just don't see enough demand for
> > URL lookups to warrant it.
>
> You could make an argument that anything that makes the whole mailing
> list/Commitfest interface easier is worthwhile to implement even if there
> isn't much demand outside of that context.
>
> In addition to that, I know I regularly come across messages in the
> archives via web searching that lead me to list aggregators like MarkMail,
> and since the message ID can't always be found at those it's painful to
> then track that back to where they were in the archives in order to get a
> permanent URL. This proposal won't fix that for the old messages already
> over there, but those will decrease in proportion moving forward.
> Probably increase visibility to using the archives too.

+1.
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Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan

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