Fixed, easy to remember URLs for posts

[Stewart Gordon]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> It would be nice if there were a simple url we could use for referring 
>> to D newsgroup posts in a fixed way regardless whatever the web 
>> interface du-jour happens to be.

Good idea!  I'd been meaning to suggest it myself.

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> I use Ddoc macros in the documentation:
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> Which eases things considerably. The news archiver will also translate 
> the URLs in the postings when creating the archive pages. That doesn't 
> work for the web interface, though.

What do you mean by "work for the web interface" exactly?

The point of the suggestion is that it would enable permanent links to D 
newsgroup posts from _anywhere_.  Old web pages, new web pages, emails, 
newsgroup posts (whether read using a web interface, a real newsreader 
or anything in between), user bookmarks, you name it.

Stewart.