Re: Suggestion: description / summary metadata for emails in mailing list archive - Mailing list pgsql-www

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: Suggestion: description / summary metadata for emails in mailing list archive
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Msg-id CABUevEy6XfFwry=reZDjWKaoJze9d8O6K5CVmwPXhaMirJK3sg@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Suggestion: description / summary metadata for emails in mailing list archive  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
Responses Re: Suggestion: description / summary metadata for emails in mailing list archive  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>)
Re: Suggestion: description / summary metadata for emails in mailing list archive  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
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On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 11:08 AM Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 5:26 AM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
Hi,

On 2020-10-20 22:02:52 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 8:02 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 2020-10-20 18:57:00 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > > I don't think anybody has, but it certainly would make sense to do so!
> >
> > Cool!
> >
>
> Thinking some more -- what would be the reasonable thing to put in when
> somebody links to a /flat/ URL? We can't pick up the part after the # to
> indicate the individual email there..

They're also currently excluded from indexing via robots.txt, which I
think also prevents accesses by twitter et al.

Hmm. Good point, I didn't realize that. We might want to consider making exceptions based on user-agent to that I guess. But one thing at a time.


Leaving that aside, how about just including the subject?

Yeah, that probably makes sense. 


I've deployed code that does this for the archives. Don't have anything for the docs and news yet, but I'll get to that in not-too-long. 

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