From: martindemello@... (Martin DeMello) Date: 2002-10-24T23:03:01+09:00 Subject: Re: Comments on c.l.r FAQ "Gavin Sinclair" wrote in message news:<055b01c27b21$73d23b50$ec1032d2@nosedog>... > From: "Hal E. Fulton" > > give me your thoughts on this: I would like > > to suggest that when people reference previous > > articles, rather than using a notation like > > [ruby-talk:34567] they use a URL like > > http://ruby-talk.com/34567 (so that it will be > > clickable in clients which recognize URLs). > > http://ruby-talk.com/34567 is a fair bit of typing to reference an old post. > If I was typing my emails in Vim (oh what luxury) there'd be no such problem. A partial solution would be to have the mail/news gateway do such a transform everytime it saw a [ruby-talk:nnnnn]. It'll keep some of the people happy some of the time, and I don't see how it'll make matters worse for anyone. martin