On 23 August 2017 at 16:47, Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 02:46:30PM +0100, Adam Spiers wrote:

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Done at least once already:

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/201591

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but sadly since then gmane has shuffled off its mortal coil and I can't
remember / find what this URL referred to.  Please could someone
point me at a working link?

Try:

  https://public-inbox.org/git/?q=gmane:201591

Public-inbox uses message-ids as its primary key, but keeps a static
mapping of gmane articles to message-ids. But the corpus of gmane ids
isn't growing anymore, and public-inbox URLs can be trivially converted
to other systems which index on the message id[1].

Thanks a lot; that's super helpful!

[1] I actually keep a local archive and convert public-inbox URLs into
    local requests that I view in mutt.

Sounds like a neat trick - any scripts / config worth sharing?