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Re: Archive link at the end of each post?



I think the problem is that at the point the mailing list is forwarding the
message it has no idea where it is going to be archived so it cannot add a
reference.

Otherwise it'd be a really cool idea.

On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 10:52:33AM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
> Hi dudes,
>                 the idea is not bad at all but what do you think to add 
> a full
> reference to the message???
> 
> http://lists.debian.org/$LISTNAME/<year>/$LISTNAME-<year><month>/msg<num>.html
> 
> exactly like they are stored in the archive.
> 
> IMO it can make few things easier specially for newbie that doesn't have 
> experience
> in searching trough the archive and for people joining the list in the 
> middle of an
> interesting thread, and even when a msg on an old thread pop up after 
> some time
> and you have already deleted the old msgs.
> It will be some sort of click and browse back since there is that nice 
> "previous by thread"
> link at the end of the page....
> 
> just my 2 cents
> 
> Regards
> Fabio
> 
> 
> Carlos Laviola wrote:
> 
> >Hey folks,
> >
> >Someone in -user-portuguese has proposed this, I'm mostly relaying the
> >idea.
> >
> >What do you think of adding a line like:
> >
> >List Archive: http://lists.debian.org/$LISTNAME/
> >
> >To the list signature that's appended on each post, at least for the
> >user lists, like -user(-*)?  It would be much easier to the users
> >themselves and people who hang around on these lists helping newcomers.
> >
> >Any objections?
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 
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