{"thread":{"id":"44751","subject":"References to old messages","startedAt":"2016-12-21T23:13:31Z","lastAt":"2016-12-22T01:00:40Z","messageCount":4,"participants":["Stephen & Linda Smith","Stefan Beller","Junio C Hamano","Eric Wong"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"308227","messageId":"2284357.IWoC4bU66L@thunderbird","threadId":"44751","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"References to old messages","fromName":"Stephen & Linda Smith","fromEmail":"ischis2@cox.net","sentAt":"2016-12-21T23:12:27Z","receivedAt":"2016-12-21T23:13:31Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"ishchis2@gmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"I want to pick up work  on a patch that I was working on previously.  \n\nI had been told to reference (i.e. footnote) a gmane URL.  With that service \nno longer being being online, what is the preferred method footnoting?\n\nsps\n"},{"id":"308228","messageId":"CAGZ79kbVvWbdHrVhO+Lbf1snuBFyeUggsjvMGwJW=n07dgyX+Q@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"44751","inReplyTo":"2284357.IWoC4bU66L@thunderbird","subject":"Re: References to old messages","fromName":"Stefan Beller","fromEmail":"sbeller@google.com","sentAt":"2016-12-21T23:15:20Z","receivedAt":"2016-12-21T23:17:58Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"stefanbeller@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/455868?v=4"},"body":"On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 3:12 PM, Stephen & Linda Smith <ischis2@cox.net> wrote:\n> I want to pick up work  on a patch that I was working on previously.\n>\n> I had been told to reference (i.e. footnote) a gmane URL.  With that service\n> no longer being being online, what is the preferred method footnoting?\n>\n> sps\n\nSee https://public-inbox.org/git/\n"},{"id":"308229","messageId":"xmqqoa04hnsq.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com","threadId":"44751","inReplyTo":"2284357.IWoC4bU66L@thunderbird","subject":"Re: References to old messages","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2016-12-21T23:20:37Z","receivedAt":"2016-12-21T23:21:16Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"Stephen & Linda Smith <ischis2@cox.net> writes:\n\n> I want to pick up work  on a patch that I was working on previously.  \n>\n> I had been told to reference (i.e. footnote) a gmane URL.  With that service \n> no longer being being online, what is the preferred method footnoting?\n>\n> sps\n\nThe NNTP interface of GMane is still working, so referring to e.g.\n$gmane/286483 _could_ identify a message uniquely, but people who do\nnot usually talk NNTP to GMane won't be able to find the message\nwith 286483, so it is not very nice.\n\nThe same message is referred to like this around here these days:\n\nhttps://public-inbox.org/git/1455685597-22445-1-git-send-email-ischis2@cox.net/\n\nThe point is people know its message id is <14556855...@cox.net> and\nrefer to other archives with it, even when public-inbox.org is not\navailable.\n\n"},{"id":"308232","messageId":"20161222010035.GA15011@starla","threadId":"44751","inReplyTo":"2284357.IWoC4bU66L@thunderbird","subject":"Re: References to old messages","fromName":"Eric Wong","fromEmail":"e@80x24.org","sentAt":"2016-12-22T01:00:35Z","receivedAt":"2016-12-22T01:00:40Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"e@80x24.org","avatar":null},"body":"Stephen & Linda Smith <ischis2@cox.net> wrote:\n> I had been told to reference (i.e. footnote) a gmane URL.  With that service \n> no longer being being online, what is the preferred method footnoting?\n\nWhat the others said about Message-IDs and public-inbox :)\n\nIf you only have old URLs pointing to gmane and no NNTP access,\nyou can also search for \"gmane:$ARTICLE_NUMBER\" via public-inbox\n(at least up to messages around this summer):\n\n\thttps://public-inbox.org/git/?q=gmane:12345\n\nhttps://public-inbox.org/git/_/text/help documents other\nsearch prefixes you can use, too.\n"}]}