[Python-Dev] Fwd: broken mailing list links in PEP(s?)

[James Y Knight]

On May 5, 2010, at 8:22 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:

> On May 5, 2010, at 7:09 AM, Oleg Broytman wrote:
>
>> On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 11:43:45AM +0100, Michael Foord wrote:
>>> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2000-July/108893.html
>>>
>>> which are broken
>>
>>  Pipermail's links aren't stable AFAIU. The numbering is changing  
>> over
>> time.
>
> They're only unstable if you regenerate the archives and the mbox  
> file is old enough to have been a victim of a long-fixed delimiter  
> bug.  Which is true for python-dev.

And of course if you're paying attention, you can fix the mbox file  
(quoting "From" etc) such that it generates the same numbers as it did  
the first time.

James