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Date:      Fri, 2 Aug 2002 22:29:34 +0200
From:      Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@bsd.hu>
To:        "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Makoto Matsushita <matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: www/en/releng index.sgml
Message-ID:  <20020802202933.GB1135@fonix.adamsfamily.xx>
In-Reply-To: <200208020606.g72666SY007900@intruder.bmah.org>
References:  <200208020523.g725NiL4032115@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020802145350Q.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> <200208020606.g72666SY007900@intruder.bmah.org>

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On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 11:06:05PM -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> If memory serves me right, Makoto Matsushita wrote:
> > 
> > The URL
> > http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=422979+0+current/freebsd-stable
> > which is the re's statement about 4.6.2 will be obsolete in the next
> > week (since 'current/freebsd-stable' is only applied to articles of
> > this week).
> 
> I had a funny feeling about that, but that was the only way I could find
> to refer to a message in the mailing list archive.  Is there a more
> stable (pun not intended) way to refer to a particular mailing list
> message?

Yes, by message-ID. Although in this case the URL:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?id=XFMail.20020731162333.re@FreeBSD.org&db=mid

(may wrap)

points to two messages since it was sent to two lists. So, this may or
may not be desired. The other option is to wait until Sunday and after
the archive has been rotated, going back and change it, it shouldn't
cahnge after that afaik. More work, this one, a bit more confusing to
non-archive users the previous one.

I had this problem too when posting news to the Hungarian BUG home page
recently: I opted for the second method ("wait till Sunday")

-- 
Regards:

Szilveszter ADAM
Szombathely Hungary

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