[Mailman-Developers] GSoC Project Discussion - Web Posting Interface.

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

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:list at example.org?In-Reply-To=%3C3469A91.D10AF4C at 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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