From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: replying to a message of a mailing list you were not subscribed to Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 07:38:50 +0200 Message-ID: <87oa5m6zv9.fsf@mdc-berlin.de> 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> <20160724192540.35ef4511@scratchpost.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60255) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bRYba-0001j4-0N for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2016 01:39:07 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bRYbV-0002lo-Hl for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2016 01:39:05 -0400 Received: from pegasus.bbbm.mdc-berlin.de ([141.80.25.20]:41257) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bRYbV-0002km-3j for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2016 01:39:01 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20160724192540.35ef4511@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: Danny Milosavljevic Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Danny Milosavljevic writes: > 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 as= k your mail >> > client to reply to it? I don't know. =20 >>=20 >> 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" head= er 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 a= ngle brackets automatically). >>=20 >> I'd suggest to make this field a text in the archive instead of a comm= ent. Is that possible? > > Also, it would be user-friendlier to add a "mailto:" link there which h= as this header in the first place. > > This would work via: > > mailto:guix-devel@gnu.org?subject=3Dfoobar&In-Reply-To=3Dxxxx > . Unless I misunderstood what you mean: this already exists. On the page you linked to above look for =E2=80=9Creply via email to=E2=80=9D. It=E2= =80=99s followed by a button. When you click on it you get a =E2=80=9Cmailto=E2=80=9D-Link. ~~ Ricardo