Re: Suggestion: description / summary metadata for emails in mailing list archive

On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 5:26 AM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:

Hi,

On 2020-10-20 22:02:52 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 8:02 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 2020-10-20 18:57:00 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > > I don't think anybody has, but it certainly would make sense to do so!
> >
> > Cool!
> >
>
> Thinking some more -- what would be the reasonable thing to put in when
> somebody links to a /flat/ URL? We can't pick up the part after the # to
> indicate the individual email there..

They're also currently excluded from indexing via robots.txt, which I
think also prevents accesses by twitter et al.

Hmm. Good point, I didn't realize that. We might want to consider making exceptions based on user-agent to that I guess. But one thing at a time.

Leaving that aside, how about just including the subject?

Yeah, that probably makes sense.