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Message-ID: <20070912102754.GA25889@alberich.amd.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:27:54 +0200
From: "Andreas Herrmann" <andreas.herrmann3@....com>
To: "Hank Leininger" <hlein@...gressive-comp.com>
cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, B.Steinbrink@....de,
"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Request for Linux Kernel Mailing List archives
On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 12:38:48PM -0400, Hank Leininger wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >Björn Steinbrink wrote:
> >>
> >>marc.info supports that.
> >>http://marc.info/?i=467949CC.9090405@zytor.com
> >Excellent! Didn't see that documented anywhere.
>
> You're right, it's not really. In fact very little is documented.
> You'd have to discover it -- in the message view, the Message-ID is
> actually a self-referential link using the above syntax.
>
> A few relevant points:
> - - Such links never actually show you the corresponding message. Instead:
> - If the message-id is unique, you are sent a 302 redirect to the
> message using the normal MARC message URL (l=foo&msgid=123)
> - If the message-id is not unique (such as crossposting, or deliberate
> attempts to cause collisions) you'll be presented with a list of
> messages, showing date, subject, author, and listname, to choose from.
> - - MARC doesn't currently touch message bodies for spam-obfuscation
> purposes, but it does for headers, specifically From: and Message-ID:.
> When MARC generates message-id-based links, they are obfuscated.
> But it can read in links formed either way. So, if you copy/paste the
> target of a Message-ID: link out of MARC, it will look slightly
> different than if you just made your own http://marc.info/?i=what@not,
> but either form will work.
> - - We don't use < > surrounding the message-id, but again, will accept
> URLs formed either way.
> - - We don't have Message-ID's for messages added before Dec, 2003.
Thanks for that usefull info.
Attached is a script containing a quick hack to enable look up of
a message-id at MARC with mutt(ng).
Posted to LKML just in case some other mutt(ng) user subscribed here
finds it useful.
Regards,
Andreas
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