Re: tip: New "Link:" tag to replace "LKML-Reference:"

[Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>]

On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 15:09 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> At Linus' request, I have modified the tip-bot to recognize a new form
> of email archive references, which should work as clickable links.
> Instead of:
> 
> LKML-Reference: <message-id>
> 
> use, instead:
> 
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/message-id
> 
> The entire bit "Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/" is a literal; the rest
> is the message-id from the original message, *without* angle brackets.
> This points to a redirection service on kernel.org, which currently
> bounces to marc.info, but which we can redirect in the future.
> 
> I changed the name from LKML-Reference: to Link: to make the width of
> the string tolerable, and since the link itself contains an explicit
> reference to the specific archive used.
> 
> Please note that message-ids sometimes contain characters which have to
> be escaped to fit in valid URI syntax!  The characters @ and $ which are
> very common in message-ids do not, however, need to be escaped in this
> particular context (even though they are not part of the URI safe
> character set, and so most library functions will escape them.)  The
> characters # ; & % as well as whitespace are definitely unsafe either
> for use in an URI or for programs to recognize them as part of one, and
> should definitely be escaped.
> 
> The tip-bot will recognize the *exact* form above (including URI
> escaping) and should do the message threading correctly.  To keep people
> from injecting malicious links, however, there is sanity filtering on
> the unescaped content, so in theory a legal-but-weird message-id might
> be rejected.

OK, so I fixed my scripts to match this and it all seems to work, except
for the:

 LKML-Reference: <new-submission>

case, where the tip-bot would mail it out for me. While I try not to use
it too much its convenient for quick fixes etc. Will the absence of a
Link tag suffice or is there more to it?