On 05/09/2013 12:28 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > The real power here would be for someone who is reading the archives to "jump > into" a discussion, potentially long after the fact. Imagine you've done a > web search for a particular problem you're having and it lands you on a page > in an archive. You want to follow up to that message with some additional > information or question. Reducing the burden for that type of intermittent > involvement in a topic should be the goal.
A simple step toward this goal would be to add a mailto link on the message's archive page that includes an In-Reply-To field, as outlined in the "Basic Examples" section of the Mailto RFC: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6068#section-6.1 so something like: <a href="mailto:l...@example.org?In-Reply-To=%3c3469a91.d10a...@example.com%3E";>Reply to this message</a> While this doesn't solve the problem for everyone (i'm sure there are MUAs that don't accept this header when generating mail from a mailto: link), it should be very easy to implement, and if mailman's default archives were to include such a link it would spur people to fix non-compliant MUAs. Regards, --dkg
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