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On 03/28/2011 03:05 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
>> On Mon, 28 Mar 2011, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>> 2) msg ids are unique and can ge grepped for. also there are archives
>>>    which allow searching for them.
>>>
>>>    http://marc.info?i=alpine.LFD.2.00.1103252150180.31464@localhost6.localdomain6
>>>
>>>    http://mid.gmane.org/alpine.LFD.2.00.1103252150180.31464@localhost6.localdomain6
>>
>> So perhaps we should add one of those into the LKML-Reference and let
>> the commit bot extract the thread reference from there.
> 
> Yes. That would make it something usable to normal users.
> 

My concern with that is that indexing services come and go (and which
ones that offer indexing by message-id, which is the *only* permanent
identifier, are even more subject to change), but things that go into
the git history stays forever.  In IETF terms, the message-id is the
"resource name" (as in URN), as opposed to the "resource locator" (as in
URL).

There is of course the option of running a bounce service on kernel.org,
as long as the Message-ID is included.

	-hpa