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Author: Ian Zimmerman
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Semi OT: Mailman, Lurker and referencing messages
On 2016-02-01 13:55 +0000, hellekin wrote:

> > Can Mailman predict the URL under which Lurker will archive the message
> > it is processing "on the fly", or is there even a variable available?
> >
> > Quoting and referencing "third party" messages would be so much easier,
> > if mails contained their own Lurker URL in the signature!
> >
>
> This is an excellent idea. Mailman developers already thought about it:
> http://wiki.list.org/DEV/Stable%20URLs
>
> I guess we can investigate and find out how to generate these from
> mailman, and then have a nice URL like:
> https://lurker.devuan.org/<some-hash> to redirect to the relevant lurker
> message. This would also make Devuan Editors' lives easier when working
> on the newsletter.


+1,000

I am looking forward to writing (and sharing) a mutt macro to do the
reference :)

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