[pmwiki-users] Re: Re: Inter-map prefix for gmane articles?

[chr at home.se]

On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 11:26:44PM +0200, chr at home.se wrote:
> > On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 10:03:21PM +0200, chr at home.se wrote:
> > > > I've often wanted to link to mails on the pmwiki mailing list. So I wonder
> > > > if we could introduce an intermap prefix for linking to gmane articles
> > > > from wiki pages on pmwiki.org? This would make it more convenient to refer
> > > > to pmwiki-mails when writing documentation etc at pmwiki.org.
> > > 
> > > Are you suggesting that this would be a permanent intermap entry
> > > for all sites, or just pmwiki.org?  
> > 
> > Nah... I don't see much use for it outside pmwiki.org. Hmm, unless we 
> > happen to ship documentation that refers to posts on gmane - don't know 
> > about that one actually...
> 
> Yes, that is my concern -- what happens when a documentation or FAQ
> page in the distribution contains a pmwiki-users: reference...?

I think we in general should avoid shipping documentation pages that
refers to a mail archive - that'd definitely be level=advanced anyway (or
possibly for historic reasons). Having said that, I don't see much of a 
drawback with including the prefix by default either.

/Christian

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