Hello,

On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 08:06:39AM -0500, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 09:08:10AM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > (It seems from the outside I have to use /r/ though for lore.kernel.org,
> > https://lore.kernel.org/20201215212228.185517-2-clemens.gruber@pqgruber.com
> > at least doesn't work.)
> 
> That's just a side-effect of our setup -- we define a reverse proxy
> lookup for every known list and the toplevel itself isn't mounted. The
> reason we use /r/ is because lkml.kernel.org/r/msgid was an existing
> redirector service we ran for 10+ years (that used to redirect to an
> external service before lore.kernel.org).
> 
> There's no reason for anyone else to mimic /r/ the way we are doing it.

Ack, I wonder if for interoperability it would make sense to allow URLs
without /r/ on lore.kernel.org and maybe then even change b4 to not use
it?!

Best regards
Uwe

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