Re: Suggestion: description / summary metadata for emails in mailing list archive

On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 5:26 AM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 2020-10-20 22:02:52 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 8:02 PM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On 2020-10-20 18:57:00 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > > > I don't think anybody has, but it certainly would make sense to do
> so!
> > >
> > > Cool!
> > >
> >
> > Thinking some more -- what would be the reasonable thing to put in when
> > somebody links to a /flat/ URL? We can't pick up the part after the # to
> > indicate the individual email there..
>
> They're also currently excluded from indexing via robots.txt, which I
> think also prevents accesses by twitter et al.
>

Hmm. Good point, I didn't realize that. We might want to consider making
exceptions based on user-agent to that I guess. But one thing at a time.

Leaving that aside, how about just including the subject?
>

Yeah, that probably makes sense.

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