From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2007-09-04T03:45:48+09:00
Subject: Re: subject line

James Edward Gray II wrote:
> I'm pretty sure that's not what Matz was talking about.  The messages 
> use to contain an id number in the header.  This makes it easy to 
> reference old posts.

It's still in the header. Your post has this one:

X-Mail-Count: 267381

That message can be linked to like this:

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/267381

If you're using konqueror, you can set it up (or was it a default?) so 
that typing "ruby-talk:267381" in the location bar opens that page. Some 
people got in the habit of using that notation to reference ruby-talk 
posts, but it doesn't seem to be used much any more.

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