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Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 14:39:51 GMT
From: h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no
To: openldap-its@OpenLDAP.org
Subject: Request: ITS links in mailinglist archives

Full_Name: Hallvard B Furuseth
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Submission from: (NULL) (129.240.6.233)
Submitted by: hallvard


Could the mailinglist->web archiver put
<a href="/its/?findid=(number)"></a>
around "ITS#(number)" in the messages?

Links for RFCs would be useful too.

Reply 1

From: Kurt Zeilenga <openldap-its@OpenLDAP.org>
To: h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no
Subject: Re: (ITS#5350) Request: ITS links in mailinglist archives
Date: Fri Jan  7 12:06:15 2011

In short, no.

The underlying archives are the email messages submitted to the list stored in
mbox format, which are 
then reformatted to HTML using off-the-shelf software.   While it technically
possible to hack that software 
to do all kinds of reformatting (as we have the source), we don't have the
resources to maintain a custom 
fork of that software.

However, there may be an reasonable alternative suggestion.  The ITS software
itself could be modified to 
include a URI to the issue in each message it sends.   This would not only show
up in archives, but in mail 
distributed to -bugs list and directly to users of the system.

Followup 1

From: Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 09:19:27 +0100
To: Kurt Zeilenga <openldap-its@openldap.org>
Subject: Re: (ITS#5350) Request: ITS links in mailinglist archives

Kurt Zeilenga writes:
> However, there may be an reasonable alternative suggestion.  The ITS
> software itself could be modified to include a URI to the issue in
> each message it sends.  This would not only show up in archives, but
> in mail distributed to -bugs list and directly to users of the system.

Yes, that would help.  Won't affect the discussion lists, though.
Except maybe people will start to quote the URLs more.

-- 
Hallvard