Specifying links in Python-URL bulletin

[Hamish Lawson]

The recent acquiring of the Deja service by Google will have given the
compiler of the Python-URL some headaches in trying to create links to
Usenet items. I applaud the inventive solution using appropriate search
terms for Google Groups, as in the example below.

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Dustin+Boswell+how+to+compile+https+support+into+Python2.0&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&rnum=1&ic=1

However, aside from the funky coloured highlighting which decorates the
resulting message (and which some might regard as added value!), I
wonder if there's the possibility that such a search may return
multiple results or the wrong result.

Instead it's possible to specify a particular message in Google Groups:

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=group:comp.lang.python&seld=925202150&ic=1

For a message that has been located in Google using search terms, the
message ID can be obtained by following the "View thread" link.

Alternatively both Yahoo Groups and Python.org have archives of the
mailing list:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/message/124006

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-February/029488.html


Hamish Lawson


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