Re: Mailing list archive citations

Jon Ericson <[email protected]>:
> I<http://perl.plover.com/~alias/list.cgi?1:mss:2202:200409:pkjnoemnogpnbdkajdih>
> for details about the optional third argument.

You can abbreviate this to

        http://perl.plover.com/~alias/list.cgi?1:mss:2202

The '1' identifies the list; 0 is the main list and 1 is the discuss
list.  'mss' is a function code; in this case, it menas to display a
single message.  And '2202' is the message number itself.

'200409' is the date, and pk...ih is a hash that identifies the
thread, but you can leave that stuff out and it will calculate them as
needed.  They are only used wityh the function codes that ask for
thread or month menus.

I hope this helps folks in the future.