On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 10:02:43AM +0000, Eric Wong wrote: > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I've thought about mirroring it to a public server as well, just for > > redundancy. But without the same domain, I'm not sure it would be all > > that useful as a community resource. > > I wouldn't get too attached to the domain, "public-inbox.org" is > too long for my tastes anyways. "peff.net/git/$MESSAGE_ID" > would actually be more user-friendly :> > > A generic Message-ID redirection/finding service would be good, > (maybe some DHT thing, but... has that taken off for git blobs, yet?) Yes, and I agree that the URL portability is one of the things I really love about public-inbox (after all, I do have my own archive and now I can follow people's public-inbox links into my very-fast local copy). I guess I just wonder if I set up a mirror on another domain, would anybody actually _use_ it? I'd think most people would just go to public-inbox.org as the de facto URL. > Anyways I hope to teach public-inbox to auto-linkify Message-ID-looking > strings "<XXXXXXXXXXX@XXXXXXXX>" into URLs for domain-portability, > (but it's ambiguous with email addresses). But yeah, I don't > like things being tied to domain names. That would be neat, but I think it actually makes references less useful in a lot of cases. URLs are universally understood, which means: - people who don't know about public-inbox can just follow the link (and in fact, that's how they learn how useful it is!) - even for people who do know about it, they are likely to read mails in their MUA. And most MUAs have some mechanism for easily following a URL, but won't know how to auto-linkify a message-id. So I too dream of a world where I can say "give me more information on this identifier" and my tools search a peer to peer distributed hash table for it. But I don't think we live in that world yet. At the very least, I think if we plan to reference without an http URL that we would use something like URI-ish, like <mid:ABC@XYZ>. That gives tools a better chance to say "OK, I know how to find message-ids" (though I still think that it's much less helpful out of the box compared to an http URL). -Peff
