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On Thu, 2018-04-12 at 14:08 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 05:01:37AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Thu, 2018-04-12 at 13:50 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 11:35:21AM +0200, Andrea Parri wrote:
> > > > Is there a better or recommended way to reference posts on LKML in commit
> > > > messages? (I do like the idea of linking to previous discussions, results,
> > > > ...)
> > > 
> > > Yes:
> > > 
> > >   https://lkml.kernel.org/r/$MSGID
> > > 
> > > that has the added benefit that it immediately includes the msg-id, so
> > > even if you don't have tubes, you can search for it in your local
> > > mailboxes.
> > > 
> > > Also, since we (kernel.org) control the redirection (currently
> > > marc.info) we can always point it to a life archive.
> > 
> > Message IDs are not useful unless you subscribe and
> > keep your emails.
> 
> I happen to do so..

As do I for mailing list threads I reply to, but keeping all email
threads locally is not not practicable on limited storage systems.

> > It'd be _much_ nicer if vger.kernel.org stored every email
> > it sent and had a search mechanism available rather than
> > relying on external systems.
> 
> People are looking at that afaik.

Looking and doing are unfortunately different.

Back when gmane died a couple years ago, I made the same suggestion
to webmaster@kernel.org, postmaster@kernel.org and cc'd lkml

https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/3/484

Never heard back.

Maybe it's the proper time now to revisit this.