From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Danny Milosavljevic Subject: Re: replying to a message of a mailing list you were not subscribed to Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2016 19:25:40 +0200 Message-ID: <20160724192540.35ef4511@scratchpost.org> References: <579027b7.VHXjhpPxQC3AAmeY%pjotr.public12@email> <8760rznoh1.fsf@gnu.org> <20160722004130.GA10340@thebird.nl> <874m7hk6dz.fsf_-_@gnu.org> <20160724033027.GA20236@thebird.nl> <20160724135828.GA6502@solar> <20160724152150.GA16481@novena-choice-citizen> <20160724191839.10d69bfe@scratchpost.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42777) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bRN9z-0007LL-IT for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2016 13:25:52 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bRN9v-0007Iv-8P for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2016 13:25:50 -0400 Received: from dd1012.kasserver.com ([85.13.128.8]:36865) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bRN9v-0007Ir-16 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2016 13:25:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20160724191839.10d69bfe@scratchpost.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Jookia <166291@gmail.com> Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Sun, 24 Jul 2016 19:18:39 +0200 Danny Milosavljevic 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 ). 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)