Re: References to old messages

2016-12-21 Thread Eric Wong
Stephen & Linda Smith 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

Re: References to old messages

2016-12-21 Thread Junio C Hamano
Stephen & Linda Smith writes: > I want to pick up work on a patch that I was working on previously. > > 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? > > sps The NNTP

Re: References to old messages

2016-12-21 Thread Stefan Beller
On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 3:12 PM, Stephen & Linda Smith wrote: > I want to pick up work on a patch that I was working on previously. > > 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

References to old messages

2016-12-21 Thread Stephen & Linda Smith
I want to pick up work on a patch that I was working on previously. 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? sps