On Aug 31, 2009, at 3:00 PM, Dale Newfield wrote:
Barry Warsaw wrote:
Let's say I just joined the XEmacs development mailing list after a
long absence. I find a message in the archive from two years ago
that is relevant to an issue I'm having. I'd like to follow up to
that message using my normal mail toolchain, but I found the
archive page through Google. I should be able to click on a link
on that page, enter my email address (perhaps through some
validation dance, or subject to a request governor) and then the
message -- as it was originally copied to the list membership --
would show up in my inbox, exactly as if I were a list member at
the time. Now I can hit 'reply' and inject myself seamlessly into that 2 year
old thread.As long as the mailing list name/address hasn't migrated/changed in
the interim...
Good point.
...perhaps the original message munged to ensure current accuracy of
the to/cc/reply-to fields?
Not sure I understand; can you elaborate?
-Barry