So, each poster's thread gets archived under a host named for their email address. There is no way whatsoever to link to individual posts on these pages; only entire threads get an address. Just great!! Who needs links anyway -- this web thingamajig is silly anyway!
Whatever, I was trying to look up an old post from Aaron Crane (as it turns out; didn't know it at the time), in a thread from Yossi Kreinin. Yossi has a dot in his mail address. You guessed it: there's no way to get at his threads. Note that http://hates-software.com/authors/ lists http://hates-software.com/authors/yossi.kreinin/ which seems good, except it redirects... to http://yossi.hates-software.com/.kreinin/ -- 404. Does it get any MORE broken? Yeah. I noticed that this page lists an author called "pagaltzis" whose threads appear under http://pagaltzis.hates-software.com/ ... which is *not* http://ap.hates-software.com/ as I configured it yonks ago. But wait -- the latter still exists! It has my old threads. The other one has my newer ones. AAaaaargh. So I clicked to try to change the configuration. My password was rejected. And I cannot find any password reminder or password reset link. Trying to re-register with the same address just makes the server crap itself and return a blank page. Great, just great. So I idly clicked the "siesta" logotype, and discovered that there is a SECOND archive: http://siesta.unixbeard.net/siesta/archive/hates-software/ This one actually has one page per post -- whoooo. Of course the newest post in it is from the end of March, some 4.5 months ago. Thankfully, the post I was looking for is older than that, so I was able to find it. Exim may be hateful, but I'm still glad that it runs the actual mailing list delivery for hates-software, otherwise even that wouldn't work. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
