Re: [Tools-discuss] Include mail archive permalinks in mailing list messages

[Dave Crocker <[e-mail]>]

On 6/26/2013 10:53 AM, Carsten Bormann wrote:
> On Jun 26, 2013, at 19:39, Dave Crocker <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
>> On 6/26/2013 10:17 AM, Ted Lemon wrote:
>>> On Jun 26, 2013, at 12:51 PM, Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>>> Why doesn't each message carry its own permalink at the time I get it?
>>>
>>> This would certainly be a useful feature.
>> As I understand the current system architecture, there's a technical challenge to this.
>
> I know, the "why" was more of a rhetorical question.
>
> It is not something that can be implemented in an afternoon, but generating some form of per-mailing-list auto-incrementing serial during distribution that is then added to a database similar to the way Bjoern proposed to add message-ids to a database wouldn't be too hard.  Maybe two afternoons, including documentation :-).  Another afternoon to make the mail-archive HTML actually use those URIs.


I think it's a good thing to pursue.

When i posted my note, I hadn't seen the one that also cited a mapping 
mechanism, such as between a url based on message id and the underlying 
key into the archive database.  That's the sort of mechanism I meant.

I just wanted to make sure folk understood that it would require its 
own, special and additional mechanism.

In a different system design, one could imagine that the capability 
would essentially be free.  But we don't have that sort of integrated 
environment.


d/

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Dave Crocker
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