Re: Link usability

From: Ian Smith <smithi_at_nimnet.asn.au>
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 06:11:04 UTC 
On 22 March 2023 6:51:48 pm AEDT, Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@freebsd.org> wrote:
 > On 21/03/2023 08:49, Ian Smith wrote:
 > > … loss of clickable links in the archived messages. …

 > FreeBSD bug 264905 – URLs/links are no longer parsed, no longer 
 > clickable, in archives at lists.freebsd.org 
 > <https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=264905>

Good to see you've been onto this one (well, many more than one) for a while.

I was going to reply that "at least we still have the originals of messages since the changeover, to which a link appears at the bottom of each displayed message called 'Original text of this message', for when better list software - or at least, better archiving software - is found."

But in view of recent foot-shooting, I checked first, and just as well.

Today, every message from changeover in October 2021, that link fails (404) until a rough manual binary search first finds a working original text link:

https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-questions/2022-November/002376.html

... posted on 25 Nov 22, ie inside ~4 months.  Let's hope they're still saved somewhere, if there's some reason we may no longer refer to them.

Only a week or so ago I looked at one of mine from last year to check headers, so this further regression appears recent.

Are we really out of diskspace?