Subject: Re: References to old messages

From: Eric Wong <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 01:00:35 +0000

Stephen & Linda Smith <[email-masked]> wrote:
> I had been told to reference (i.e. footnote) a gmane URL.  With that service 
> no longer being being online, what is the preferred method footnoting?

What the others said about Message-IDs and public-inbox :)

If you only have old URLs pointing to gmane and no NNTP access,
you can also search for "gmane:$ARTICLE_NUMBER" via public-inbox
(at least up to messages around this summer):

	https://public-inbox.org/git/?q=gmane:12345

https://public-inbox.org/git/_/text/help documents other
search prefixes you can use, too.