[PATCH] Don't send people to mid.gmane.org

[PATCH] Don't send people to mid.gmane.org

[Jonathan Corbet]

mid.gmane.org has not worked since Lars left the building, and there is no
realistic prospect of it ever coming back.  Sending people there is now a
waste of time, let's not do that.
---
 lib/PublicInbox/ExtMsg.pm | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/ExtMsg.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/ExtMsg.pm
index ab9591f..5b10517 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/ExtMsg.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/ExtMsg.pm
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ our @EXT_URL = (
 	# leading "//" denotes protocol-relative (http:// or https://)
 	'//marc.info/?i=%s',
 	'//www.mail-archive.com/search?l=mid&q=%s',
-	'http://mid.gmane.org/%s',
 	'https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/%s',
 	'//docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?db=mid&id=%s',
 	'https://www.w3.org/mid/%s',
-- 
2.14.3

Re: [PATCH] Don't send people to mid.gmane.org

[Eric Wong]

Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> wrote:
> mid.gmane.org has not worked since Lars left the building, and there is no
> realistic prospect of it ever coming back.  Sending people there is now a
> waste of time, let's not do that.

I seem to remember it working at some point afterwards, but
maybe I'm mistaken.

Fortunately, nntp://news.gmane.org/20180323125048.3a3c8864@lwn.net
still seems to work.  How about that?

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/ExtMsg.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/ExtMsg.pm
index c71510f..1509e06 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/ExtMsg.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/ExtMsg.pm
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ our @EXT_URL = (
 	# leading "//" denotes protocol-relative (http:// or https://)
 	'//marc.info/?i=%s',
 	'//www.mail-archive.com/search?l=mid&q=%s',
-	'http://mid.gmane.org/%s',
+	'nntp://news.gmane.org/%s',
 	'https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/%s',
 	'//docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?db=mid&id=%s',
 	'https://www.w3.org/mid/%s',

Re: [PATCH] Don't send people to mid.gmane.org

[Jonathan Corbet]

On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 19:07:35 +0000
Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> wrote:

> I seem to remember it working at some point afterwards, but
> maybe I'm mistaken.
> 
> Fortunately, nntp://news.gmane.org/20180323125048.3a3c8864@lwn.net
> still seems to work.  How about that?

I kind of suspect an nntp:// link will not be useful to a whole lot of
people in these barbaric times.  Certainly it's better than a
guaranteed-useless link, so it's a step in the right direction, though.

Thanks,

jon

Re: [PATCH] Don't send people to mid.gmane.org

[Eric Wong]

Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 19:07:35 +0000
> Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Fortunately, nntp://news.gmane.org/20180323125048.3a3c8864@lwn.net
> > still seems to work.  How about that?
> 
> I kind of suspect an nntp:// link will not be useful to a whole lot of
> people in these barbaric times.  Certainly it's better than a
> guaranteed-useless link, so it's a step in the right direction, though.

Heh, ending these barbaric times is a long-term goal of this project :)

Anyways, pushed as commit 3e8a4842d3f0ec51bab024322a934b91ace6f4ed

    extmsg: use news.gmane.org for Message-ID lookups
    
    http://mid.gmane.org/ has not worked for a while, but their NNTP
    server continues to work.  Use that and perhaps give NNTP more
    exposure.
    
    Reported-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>