Re: A note from the maintainer

From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Date: Aug 14, 2016, 22:52 UTC
Message-ID: <20160814225219.GA12202@dcvr>
In-Reply-To: <A8D4E6C8B72B472BB7B580804F9FAB85@PhilipOakley>

Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> wrote:

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> From: "Eric Wong" <e@80x24.org>
> >
> >Yes, I was somewhat careful to check for proper mboxes from gmane;
> >I just missed entire ranges :x
> >
> 
> There were a number of messages that were listed by gmane as being in the
> various Git for Windows lists such as msysgit, especially when the messages
> went to both lists (as the issue had common cause) that failed to get onto
> the regualr gmane list.
> 
> Are these something that has been included?

If they were on both lists, yes, gmane seems to miss some of those messages, unfortunately.

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> Philip
> 
> A quick search on a possible message gave
> https://public-inbox.org/git/55BF6808.1000500@web.de/ which has no parent,
> but that parent actually only went to the msysgit list, so no real surprise
> there, but I do remember some other cases that were on list - I just can't
> find them at the moment :-(.

If a message was only posted exclusively on other lists, it should stay there and it's archives. public-inbox provides a way to lookup external messages by Message-ID for this reason.

Is there a way to lookup messages by Message-ID from the msysgit archives? I could add it to the existing list of alternate Message-ID lookup services:

  https://public-inbox.org/meta/20160814054731.26194-1-e@80x24.org/

GoogleGroups doesn't seem usable without JavaScript at all, unfortunately :<

I don't think the msysgit archives would be too large and I wouldn't mind hosting them myself. But, users on GoogleGroups may not be used to our conventions and not appreciate having their unobfuscated addresses exposed or reply-to-all...

I will probably add an option to support centralized lists to public-inbox sometime, though. I don't like centralization, but completely inaccessible archives are worse.