"dimesio" <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > DanKegel wrote: > > The real url for that thread seems to be > > http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?p=47482 > > > > maybe some spammer is copying thread names, > > and his post was deleted? > > The problem is that the notices sent to users saying that someone > has replied to their thread contain a link to the post, not the > thread. When the post is spam, and I delete it, that link no > longer works. IMO, it would be better if the link in the email > were for the thread as a whole. That would work better in the case of deleted posts, but perhaps not so well in other (one hopes, more common) cases. Another approach would be for the web server to be aware of deleted posts, and internally redirect only those URLs to the corresponding threads.