Re: [OT] Why doesn't the lua list get replaced with a forum ?

[Glenn Maynard <glenn@...>]

On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 09:27:59PM -0300, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
> > each message gets a unique sequential number like ruby-talk:12345
> > that can be used as a unique ID of this message in their archive for
> > quoting and reference purposes.
> 
> We have that. We just quote URLs in the lua-l archive at lua-users.org.

Debian lists include Message-IDs in the archives, and use them for
referring to messages; that way you can google for them, references
don't become useless if the archive moves, and you can look up referenced
messages in your local mailboxes with a regular search.

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Glenn Maynard