Brian E Carpenter wrote:
Did I miss an announcement of the change in format of
I-D announcement messages?
There's no longer a URL for the standard .txt format.
That's mildly annoying for me (extra time and extra mouse clicks)
and must be a nuisance for anyone who processes these
messages automatically.
I did not see an announcement either.
I don't mind addition of URLs. But I strongly dislike removal of URLs!
I would also appreciate if that URL was put back in.
After noticing download failures due to the lack of the URL to the TXT,
I changed my I-D download perl-script on 11-Jun-2012 to accomodate for that
unexpected change. Since the URL is gone, I have resorted to synthesize
the URL to the TXT document myself from the unqualified filename.
if ( $_ =~ m/^\s+Filename\s+:\s+(draft-.*\d\d\.txt)/ ) {
push(@link, "http://tools.ietf.org/id/$1";);
}
Additionally, for some time now, I'm seeing errors trying to download
I-D TXT documents which have been superseded by a successor version
_before_ I feed the announcement EMail to my download script.
What is the purpose of the change to deny previous TXT versions of I-Ds?
Yoav Nir wrote:
This line is not too hot either:
There's also a htmlized version available at:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/submission.filename }}-01
This puzzles me too.
How about adding a mailto: URL into I-D announcements to
report bugs for the software that creates them?
-Martin