The old URL is definitely a lot friendlier, even apart from the length. I know at a glance the month and list where the thread occurred, which is perhaps the most important metadata. In the new link I only know what mailing list it happened on, and nothing else meaningful.
On Thu, Jun 6, 2019, 8:20 AM Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 11:08:13AM +0200, Victor Stinner wrote: > > > Enhancements: > > * More reliable "permalink" URLs to emails > > This is excellent... > > but the old pipermail URLs were typically something like 70-80 > characters, which means they fit nicely into emails (and comments in > source code). However the new URLs are much longer. Picking two examples > at random: > > https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2019-March/055976.html > > > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-id...@python.org/thread/B7QPHTQSBVN4NFO3SEVR57AIGYPM3MUM/ > > i.e. 25-40% longer. Is there a shorter permalink form available, like > goo.gl, bitly, youtu.be etc use? That would be awesome if we could use > them instead. > > > > -- > Steven > Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev(a)python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-leave(a)python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ >
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