Ingebrigtsen: The End of Gmane? [LWN.net]

Ingebrigtsen: The End of Gmane?

Posted Jul 28, 2016 16:31 UTC (Thu) by Kayden (guest, #89093)
Parent article: Ingebrigtsen: The End of Gmane?

This will definitely be missed.

The fact that you could just link to http://mid.gmane.org/<some-message-id> was fantastically useful. Have an email from some mailing list and want to send a link to someone? Just look up the message-id, paste it it in, good to go. Just sent a patch with git-send-email and want to post a link to bugzilla? Same. To me, this was a killer feature.

It was neat that it worked for any list, too, regardless of where it was hosted...though honestly, if mailman grew support for MessageID-based archive links for all mailing lists hosted at a particular site, that'd probably work just as well in most cases.

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Ingebrigtsen: The End of Gmane?

Posted Jul 28, 2016 18:46 UTC (Thu) by lacos (guest, #70616) [Link] (1 responses)

You are absolutely right, but it gets better. If you use URLs of the form

http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=<some-m...>

it does the same, but it drops you in the threaded view, with the referenced message focused. You don't just get the message itself, you get all its context all at once. That's a killer feature indeed.

Ingebrigtsen: The End of Gmane?

Posted Jul 29, 2016 15:16 UTC (Fri) by darwish (guest, #102479) [Link]

Exactly. I'll really miss gmane's find-root functionality.

Actually I find gmane's find-root + sensible email-thread GUI the only way to properly read mailing lists.

Mailman for example, even if you chose the "list by thread" option, only shows the thread within the boundary of a month. If the thread passed a month, you're out ot luck :-(

Ingebrigtsen: The End of Gmane?

Posted Jul 28, 2016 18:53 UTC (Thu) by amk (subscriber, #19) [Link]

Would there be some organization that could support its maintenance and operations, like the Linux Foundation, Software in the Public Interest, or archive.org?

Ingebrigtsen: The End of Gmane?

Posted Jul 29, 2016 8:03 UTC (Fri) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

Some more services for Message-ID lookup are on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message-ID

If anyone knows of more, please add them.