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To: Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Mail archive indexes are broken, URLs too
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:12:06 -0500
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On Jul 16, 2006, at 2:43 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, Tom Lane wrote:
>> When Marc fixed the message-boundary pattern and regenerated the
>> archives, many of the existing messages changed URLs because they
>> got assigned slightly different numbers. I notice that the archive
>> search engine hasn't yet tracked this change --- if you do a search
>> and click on a link to a message, you'll arrive at a message close
>> to the one you want but probably not quite it.
>>
>> Regenerating the archive indexes is presumably not hard, but there's
>> a bigger problem: for awhile now many of us have been in the habit
>> of citing old discussions by archive URLs. All those links are now
>> broken too, and I can't think of any easy way to fix them. And then
>> there's Google etc.
>>
>> I wonder if it'd be better to revert the regeneration of the
>> archives,
>> and only apply the new message-boundary pattern to future messages.
>
> Nope, for one simple reason ... if, for some reason, at some point
> in the future, we have to regenerate everything anyway (ie. the
> last time we did a major template change for the archives), all the
> #'ng is going to end up reverting back to what it is now ... so
> we'd only be 'delaying the inevitable' ...
This is a problem for most mailing lists, but I think it's a critical
one for us since we depend very, very heavily on the archives.
Can we change the lists so that they will generate a UUID and add it
to message headers, and then allow the archive software to key off of
that?
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Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant [email protected]
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