Re: Commit fest?

Greg Smith wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Mar 2008, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > Oh, what I would really like is to be able to pull up 
> > archives.postgresql.org emails based on message id so I can link to the 
> > entire thread.  Unfortunately, it doesn't work there, nor does Google or 
> > any of the other Postgres email archive sites.
> 
> This is something I've been looking into my own organization.  The message 
> ids are at the start of the archive web pages.  For example your e-mail 
> here I'm replying to begins like this if you look at the page source:
> 
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-03/msg00554.php
> <!-- MHonArc v2.6.16 -->
> <!--X-Subject: Re: Commit fest? -->
> <!--X-From-R13: Pehpr [bzwvna <oehprNzbzwvna.hf> -->
> <!--X-Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:19:33 -0300 (ADT) -->
> <!--X-Message-Id: 200803170219.m2H2JRQ11863@momjian.us -->
> <!--X-Content-Type: text/plain -->
> <!--X-Reference: 20681.1205719990@sss.pgh.pa.us -->
> <!--X-Head-End-->
> 
> I was thinking of writing something that scraped the archives building a 
> lookup table out of this information.  What would be nice is if the 
> X-Message-Id and X-Reference were both put into the regular HTML for 
> future archived messages so that it's more likely tools like Google could 
> search based on them.  A brief glance at the MHonArc documentation 
> suggests that could be run to re-covert any existing messages that are 
> still available in order to add to those even.

Yep, also you can pull my comments by using the message id, e.g.:
 http://js-kit.com/rss/momjian.us/msgid-1195396974.4217.13.camel@ebony.site

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