[llvm-dev] Old mailing list links broken.

[Sean Silva via llvm-dev]

On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Tanya Lattner <tanyalattner at llvm.org>
wrote:

>
> On Jul 21, 2016, at 11:59 PM, Sean Silva <chisophugis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Tanya,
>
> I was spelunking through bugzilla and ran into an old mailing list link
> http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2006-January/005137.html
> (found in PR36).
>
> I expect this link to be broken since our servers are not on that domain.
> No big deal, just change it to lists.llvm.org:
>
> http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvmdev/2006-January/005137.html
>
> Looks like that doesn't exist, as the list has been renamed to llvm-dev.
> Next try:
>
> http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2006-January/005137.html
>
> Success! .... or is it? This doesn't look like the correct post that was
> being linked :(
>
> Is there some way for us to get to the intended page for these links?
> (possibly with some mechanical transformations to the URL). It would be a
> shame to not be able to follow these cross-references from the old mailing
> list URL’s.
>
>
> Unfortunately, UIUC is unable to auto-forward to lists.llvm.org (which
> would fix most of the problem).
>

I'm not too worried about this part.


> However, the change in numbering is not something I think can be fixed.
>

That is too bad.

-- Sean Silva


>
> So, I think we are stuck with this..
>
> -Tanya
>
>
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