From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 01:00:35 GMT
Subject: Re: References to old messages
Message-ID: <20161222010035.GA15011@starla>
In-Reply-To: <2284357.IWoC4bU66L@thunderbird>

Stephen & Linda Smith <ischis2@cox.net> wrote:
> I had been told to reference (i.e. footnote) a gmane URL.  With that service 
> no longer being being online, what is the preferred method footnoting?

What the others said about Message-IDs and public-inbox :)

If you only have old URLs pointing to gmane and no NNTP access,
you can also search for "gmane:$ARTICLE_NUMBER" via public-inbox
(at least up to messages around this summer):

	https://public-inbox.org/git/?q=gmane:12345

https://public-inbox.org/git/_/text/help documents other
search prefixes you can use, too.