From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2004-11-15T07:17:22+09:00
Subject: ruby-talk link shortcut

trans. (T. Onoma) wrote:
> P.S. I recall long ago someone mentioned a real quick way to access ruby-talk 
> messages (like the above ruby-talk:44258). Anyone know how?

This used to work, IIRC, but doesn't now:

http://ruby-talk.org/12345

and going to http://ruby-talk.org/ gives the message:

The Ruby-talk.org domain is temporarily under maintenance. Please use 
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/ruby/ruby-talk/index.shtml. Thanks, Ruby 
Central, Inc.

Anyway, it possible to configure many browsers to recognize

ruby-talk:12345

as a shortcut in the url bar for the url

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/12345

In konqueror, this feature is called Web Shortcuts.

OT: ironically message 12345 is from matz, reluctantly agreeing to 
remove the [ruby-talk:12345] tag that was automatically added to 
beginning of the subject line on messages from the ML. If you remember 
*that* discussion, you're getting to be an old timer here. (And if you 
were on the list, but don't remember the discussion you are really an 
old timer ;)