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

On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 11:08 AM Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
wrote:

> 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.
>
>
I've deployed code that does this for the archives. Don't have anything for
the docs and news yet, but I'll get to that in not-too-long.

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