Re: kernel mailing list permalinks

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 08/02/2013 02:36 PM, Shuah Khan wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> vger already adds a "to unsubscribe from this list" footer to messages
>> to LKML and other lists.  What if it also added the lkml.kernel.org
>> permalink for the message, e.g.,
>> "http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFxb3NT3_04ZLKiCFrtTXSdi4bfQFf0HJviRRYPTW4ymXA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx";?
>>
>> I often use the permalink to cite an email in bugzilla reports,
>> changelogs, other conversations, etc., and I currently dig out the
>> message-ID and construct the link by hand, so having the link directly
>> in the footer would be handy for me.  Would anybody else find this
>> useful?
>>
>> Bjorn
> 
> +1
> It would be awesome and very useful to me. I often look for lkml link
> for messages.
> 

The above link is also a good example of subtleness: + in a URL means a
space character, it has to be escaped as %2B.  Particularly a problem in
gmail message-ids.

	-hpa


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