Persistent message URIs and a mid redirector, was: Re: [Mailman-Developers] Requirements for a new archiver

[Chris Croome]

Hi

Appols to butt in without having had the time to properly follow the
thread...

For me the thing that I hate most about the current mailman web
archives is the lack of persistent URIs, the fact that you open a
mbox to edit out soemones phone number they sent to a public list by
mistake and after you have rebuild the archives most message URIs
have changed and as a result dozens of carfully constructed wiki
pages referencing these email are broken :-( 

If a new archive only resulted in persistent URIs for messages I'd
be happy, I guess peole know this classic?

  Cool URIs don't change
  http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI

Also are people aware of the neat hack that the W3C uses where by
you can get to any message in their list archives with a URI like
this:

  http://www.w3.org/mid/$MID

And in addition each outgoing message from their list server has
this URI in the header, for example:

 X-Archived-At: http://www.w3.org/mid/20030204091000.GC2284@webarchitects.co.uk

This header is added with a procmail rule:

  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-dev/message/3163

Chris

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