On Sun, 24 Jul 2016 19:18:39 +0200 Danny Milosavljevic <dan...@scratchpost.org> wrote:
> > Even worse, if I want to reply to an issue on a mailing list that I'm not > > subscribed to, it's difficult. I still haven't figured it out, maybe you > > can go > > to the archive and download an mbox and look at the reference and ask your > > mail > > client to reply to it? I don't know. > > You read the (X-)"Message-Id" header field from the archive (for Guix, it's > in a HTML comment - for example in > <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-07/msg01127.html>). Then > you add an "In-Reply-To" header with the same value to your E-Mail (if your > E-Mail client doesn't add angle brackets, add them manually - but for example > git send-email adds angle brackets automatically). > > I'd suggest to make this field a text in the archive instead of a comment. Is > that possible? Also, it would be user-friendlier to add a "mailto:"; link there which has this header in the first place. This would work via: mailto:guix-devel@gnu.org?subject=foobar&In-Reply-To=xxxx . Note that this would increase spam to the list almost immediately. (If that's a problem, I can suggest to make it harder to automatically read by using Javascript instead of plain HTML in order to make it build this URL only if a human is at the client)
