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Re: Future of gccbug
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 10:18:21PM +0100, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> Phil Edwards <phil@jaj.com> writes:
> |
> | Yes, it goes into "Kenner mode" because (the last time I investigated this,
>
> And Dan keeps saying the contrary. :-(
Well, maybe you and I both have similarly-odd mail client settings.
Who knows?
> | One little-known fact that has occasionally proved useful to me is that
> | the mailing list software itself can serve up indices and retrieve old
> | messages. Before the web archives had a "view in raw mode" link, for
> | example, and saving a patch from gcc-patches would change '>' into '>',
> | I would get the useful form of patches by sending a retrieval message to
> | the list software, and getting a text version that way. You could do the
> | same thing with gcc-bugs, although it would be somewhat inconvenient.
>
> I think that works only if one has the thread number.
Yep; it's in the Return-Path header, IIRC.
> What was
> possible with GNATS is querying with the PR number.
I did say it would be inconvenient. :-(
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