Re: A note from the maintainer

Philip Oakley [off-list ref] wrote:

From: "Eric Wong" <redacted>

quoted

Yes, I was somewhat careful to check for proper mboxes from gmane;
I just missed entire ranges :x

There were a number of messages that were listed by gmane as being in the
various Git for Windows lists such as msysgit, especially when the messages
went to both lists (as the issue had common cause) that failed to get onto
the regualr gmane list.

Are these something that has been included?

If they were on both lists, yes, gmane seems to miss some of
those messages, unfortunately.

Philip

A quick search on a possible message gave
https://public-inbox.org/git/55BF6808.1000500@web.de/ which has no parent,
but that parent actually only went to the msysgit list, so no real surprise
there, but I do remember some other cases that were on list - I just can't
find them at the moment :-(.

If a message was only posted exclusively on other lists, it
should stay there and it's archives.  public-inbox provides a
way to lookup external messages by Message-ID for this reason.

Is there a way to lookup messages by Message-ID from the msysgit
archives?  I could add it to the existing list of alternate
Message-ID lookup services:

  https://public-inbox.org/meta/20160814054731.26194-1-e@80x24.org/

GoogleGroups doesn't seem usable without JavaScript at all,
unfortunately :<

I don't think the msysgit archives would be too large and I
wouldn't mind hosting them myself.  But, users on GoogleGroups
may not be used to our conventions and not appreciate having
their unobfuscated addresses exposed or reply-to-all...

I will probably add an option to support centralized lists to
public-inbox sometime, though.  I don't like centralization,
but completely inaccessible archives are worse.