Re: [PATCH 21.5] Starting XEmacs 21.5 via cygwin's run command

Hi Adrian, On 8/21/07, Adrian Aichner <adrian(a)xemacs.org&gt; wrote: > "Vin Shelton" <acs(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: > > > Adrian - I added a pointer to the gmane permalink. > > Hi Vin, I'm concerned about mail archive URLs as the only reference. > > As we saw with tux.org, the can go up in smoke and then we have nothing. > > If the original message-id is put in as a reference, then every one of > us with a large history of email can recover it. > > M-x gnus-article-refer-article > works slowly but surely. > > Oh, I think the original message-id can not be found via > http://calypso.tux.org/pipermail/xemacs-patches/2006-November/000041.html The fact that you can't search by message-id reduces the utility of some email archives [and message-ids :-) ]. I think that gmane is relatively permanent and the http link is much more generally useful than a message-id.

Remember that some people will not have the extensive personal email archives that we do. (In fact, I often post from my gmail account, where my email history is less extensive than my home machine, so even those of us with extensive email archives do not always have access to those archives.) Personally, I think using a gmane permalink is sufficiently permanent to preserve the thread, but I'm willing to change my patch if other people agree with you.