[Mailman-Developers] Improving the archives

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Barry Warsaw writes:

 > Yes, definitely.  What do you think of the base32 examples I have on  
 > the wiki page?

They're somewhat better than Message-IDs for readability, but they're
not user-friendly.

 > On Jul 24, 2007, at 1:11 PM, Terri Oda wrote:
 > 
 > > It seems silly to generate nice short links but then use message-id.

The use case for the message-id is not people.  It's software, which
doesn't much care about "nice short".  But the developers debugging
and maintaining the software will thank us for the ease of verifying
that the URL goes to the right place.