Dave Smith wrote: > On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 02:20:09PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> How do I start composing a new message to a mailing list? > The same way you compose a new message to a person - hit 'n' and type > the list address, e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED] You may want to > cut-and-paste the list address, or configure it as an alias. Presumably if you use the patch which has RFC 2369 support, there might be a 'list-post' option, which would be nice.... In fact, mutt could probably add a 'list-post' option (which would post a new message to list(s) existing in the current message. > > What I usually do now is push "L" for list-reply the remove the > > body and appropriate headers. > Please DON'T do this. Most MUAs (including mutt) use 'References:' and > 'In-reply-to:' headers which can be used for threading. This means > that your 'new' message ends up as part of another thread. Since many > people who are on a number of high-traffic lists (like myself) use > delete-by-thread, you may find that you simply get ignored if you > happen to choose a thread that they're not interested in. If you remove 'In-Reply-To' (which the OP may certainly consider an "appropriate header"), Mutt won't generate the References headers either, and threading won't be broken. As long as you remove 'In-Reply-To' and change the subject, I don't see a problem with this approach. -- Will Yardley input: william < @ hq . newdream . net . >
