Re: References to old messages

Stephen & Linda Smith [off-list ref] 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 interface of GMane is still working, so referring to e.g.
$gmane/286483 _could_ identify a message uniquely, but people who do
not usually talk NNTP to GMane won't be able to find the message
with 286483, so it is not very nice.

The same message is referred to like this around here these days:

https://public-inbox.org/git/1455685597-22445-1-git-send-email-ischis2@cox.net/

The point is people know its message id is [off-list ref] and
refer to other archives with it, even when public-inbox.org is not
available.