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On 27 October 2017 at 00:28, Wes Turner <wes.turner@gmail.com> wrote:
MM3 injects an Archived-At header, as the permalink URLs for individual messages are generated based on a hash of a suitable subset of the message headers (I don't know if it's possible to opt-in to including those in the message footer or not, though).
So basically, what I'm asking is what would be the support for the use
case "Find a permanent link to an archived article as fast as possible
based on subject/author or a Google search".The complexity of this process is also very wastefully frustrating to me. (Maybe it's in the next month's message tree? No fulltext search? No way to even do an inurl: search because of the URIs?!)Isn't there a way to append a permalink to the relayed message footers? Google Groups and Github do this and it saves a lot of time.
As Barry explained, this isn't possible with pipermail, as those archive URLs are dynamically generated and are completely independent of the message contents and metadata (this is also why you can't safely delete messages from MM2 archives: doing so will renumber the archive URLs for all subsequent messages).
Cheers,
Nick.
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