Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:33:16 +0900 (JST)
Message-Id: <20090318.123316.45181164.t-ishii@sraoss.co.jp>
To: gsmith@gregsmith.com
Cc: bruce@momjian.us, scrappy@hub.org, alvherre@commandprompt.com,
	david@dawninglight.net, pgsql-www@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: List Message Footer
From: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org>
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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.
--
Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan