Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 17:11:04 +1100 From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> To: Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@freebsd.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Link usability Message-ID: <F5557121-AA21-49F4-BBC8-24CB30AA5C6E@nimnet.asn.au> In-Reply-To: <9ea90d6b-8c5a-75db-621c-1253a8b2865f@freebsd.org> References: <ca17a158b68d6cf2d0c261cc5f4268d5ef367482.camel@blues-softwares.net> <3faa3481-abe3-47cd-f273-2658db42a5bc@gmail.com> <11239785ba0531583f29189b133ceafdcded8aad.camel@blues-softwares.net> <ac194575-8e40-5e19-2478-a69fffbab278@freebsd.org> <5f1028aadd42bcbd89c62e843fc59798c52a0f36.camel@blues-softwares.net> <9B5F5E1E-555D-4FA8-AFBE-EBBD3A8A7045@nimnet.asn.au> <6eaa6e1f-af45-41f8-a5d7-2f03eb4f456a@freebsd.org> <A7E64A3C-2D9C-4368-ACC9-A81403C163EC@nimnet.asn.au> <9ea90d6b-8c5a-75db-621c-1253a8b2865f@freebsd.org>
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On 22 March 2023 6:51:48 pm AEDT, Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@freebsd=2Eorg= > wrote: > On 21/03/2023 08:49, Ian Smith wrote: > > =E2=80=A6 loss of clickable links in the archived messages=2E =E2=80= =A6 > FreeBSD bug 264905 =E2=80=93 URLs/links are no longer parsed, no longer= =20 > clickable, in archives at lists=2Efreebsd=2Eorg=20 > <https://bugs=2Efreebsd=2Eorg/bugzilla/show_bug=2Ecgi?id=3D264905>; Good to see you've been onto this one (well, many more than one) for a whi= le=2E I was going to reply that "at least we still have the originals of message= s since the changeover, to which a link appears at the bottom of each displ= ayed message called 'Original text of this message', for when better list s= oftware - or at least, better archiving software - is found=2E" But in view of recent foot-shooting, I checked first, and just as well=2E Today, every message from changeover in October 2021, that link fails (404= ) until a rough manual binary search first finds a working original text li= nk: https://lists=2Efreebsd=2Eorg/archives/freebsd-questions/2022-November/002= 376=2Ehtml =2E=2E=2E posted on 25 Nov 22, ie inside ~4 months=2E Let's hope they're = still saved somewhere, if there's some reason we may no longer refer to the= m=2E Only a week or so ago I looked at one of mine from last year to check head= ers, so this further regression appears recent=2E Are we really out of diskspace?
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