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Re: RFC 5064 Archived-At header

Jeff Breidenbach
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:49:29 -0700

>Will someone provide some real use case scenarios of how the
>archived-at URL gets used by a message receipient.  If I have
>the message locally, do I care where it is archived?

It's handy if you are writing a blog. For example, Linux Weekly
News reports on the Linux Kernel mailing list. They quote
particular messages, and provide an archival link. This lets readers
examine the (possibly active) thread.

http://lwn.net/Articles/286910/
http://lwn.net/Articles/287490/