- From: Al Gilman <Alfred.S.Gilman@IEEE.org>
- Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 16:05:08 -0400
- To: "wai-xtech@w3.org WAI-XTECH" <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Here's a trick you may wish to use sometime. There was an opportunity for it to have helped in a recent telecon, but not if I took enough time to explain it right then. So I created an action for me to go through this offline. http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/Group/track/actions/237 The W3C mail archives have a way to retrieve messages by message-id. The syntax is http://www.w3.org/mid/... where ... is replaced by the Message-ID header value from the message in question *without* the leading and trailing angle brackets. These URLs are given in Archived-At: headers in the mail distributed by the W3C mailing list manager. In a message you get from the list, you will find, if you inspect the headers, both of the following (data from arbitrary but real example message shown): Message-Id: <p06240872c4e4b9d5c033@[10.0.1.8]> Archived-At: <http://www.w3.org/mid/p06240872c4e4b9d5c033@% 5B10.0.1.8%5D> .. and you will find you can retrieve this message from the archives by any of http://www.w3.org/mid/p06240872c4e4b9d5c033@%5B10.0.1.8%5D http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/wai-xtech/2008Sep/0031.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2008Sep/0118.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Sep/0025.html The time when it is good to know the full pattern is when you are reading your personal copy of a mailgram that also got sent to a W3C list and you want to browse the thread using the W3C archive. Then you need to go to the headers, extract the Message-ID value, strip the angle brackets, prepend 'http://www.w3.org/mid/' and put that in the address bar of your browser. If it was cross- posted, you will have to choose which list archive to browse in. But this will get you from a mailgram in your mailer to the archives, if it ever hit the archives. Al
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