David Fraser wrote: > Rocco Moretti wrote: <snip>
> > I'm sorry I'm not able to give a direct URL, but it seems they've > > switched over to a horrendously long, stateful URL system which doesn't > > lend itself to direct linkage. > > Doesn't seem stateful to me, just has different thread / message ids to > the old system: Using different message IDs is bad. Usenet already has a header for this: Message ID. > http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/1db72429a2b05ce0/2c1679d365ffe9dd#2c1679d365ffe9dd > > The syntax is thread/$threadid/$messageid#$messageid > At least for me, these URLs are transferable between computers / browsers But if Google ever moves away from maintaining a Usenet archive, then any links involving Google IDs will be broken. This happened with DejaNews and will happen with links to old URLs with the GG1 (Google Groups 1) system (unless they maintain continuity). Even then, all was not lost because you could extract the Usenet message ID from the URL. It looks like you can't do this with the new GG2 message references. > You can also access the message directly: > > http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/2c1679d365ffe9dd I would also *always* add the Usenet message ID. This timeproofs it against any future changes. Christopher -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
