Re: Excessive # usage in URLs

Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Magnus Hagander (magnus(at)hagander(dot)net) wrote:
> > The point of the # is that you actually want to point to that specific
> > message in the thread. If you just pick the first message in the thread we
> > could exclude it, but how else would you link to a specific message?
>
> The request isn't to remove the "#" ability for the flat view entirely,
> it'd just be nice if the site didn't redirect to having the "#" when the
> message-id after the "#" is the same as the one before the "#" (iow,
> it's the first message).

Here's another idea. Right now the <A NAME="tag"> tag is the
message-id, but since messages are added consecutively to a thread, we
could just assign each of them a number, so that to link the second
message in a thread we could do this

http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20151023125233(dot)GQ3685(at)tamriel(dot)snowman(dot)net#2
We could do this in addition to the message-id-based NAME tag.

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