Aleksei: no, mail-archive.com is a public mailing list archive, it does not require subscription.
After the demise of GMANE, I started using references to mail-archive.com because similarly to GMANE, it also provides lookup by Message-Id -- regardless of the specific mailing list(s) that the message in question was posted to. (The only requirement is that mail-archive.com be subscribed to at least one of the lists that the message was sent to.) The URL format is
The trick is that such URLs can be constructed, on the email sender's side, ahead of mail-archive.com picking up the message (from at least one mailing list) and indexing it. The URL can be constructed without any delay because the sender knows the Message-Id of the message they just sent. Initially the link will appear dead, but after a while it will start working.
So using these links I can just send the email, generate the link right after, and forget about it, regardless of how slow or fast the archive is that day.
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Aleksei: no, mail-archive.com is a public mailing list archive, it does not require subscription.
After the demise of GMANE, I started using references to mail-archive.com because similarly to GMANE, it also provides lookup by Message-Id -- regardless of the specific mailing list(s) that the message in question was posted to. (The only requirement is that mail-archive.com be subscribed to at least one of the lists that the message was sent to.) The URL format is
http:// mid.mail- archive. com/<Message-Id>
The trick is that such URLs can be constructed, on the email sender's side, ahead of mail-archive.com picking up the message (from at least one mailing list) and indexing it. The URL can be constructed without any delay because the sender knows the Message-Id of the message they just sent. Initially the link will appear dead, but after a while it will start working.
So using these links I can just send the email, generate the link right after, and forget about it, regardless of how slow or fast the archive is that day.
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