The cost of contributing

[Martin Pool]

On 6/29/07, James Westby <jw+debian at jameswestby.net> wrote:
> > > If we were to have a command that made all of this easy, perhaps it
> > > could fire up an editor for you to write the body of the message, much
> > > like commit does.
> >
> > I think just an editor isn't good enough.  I think we want to invoke the
> > user's mail client.  Unfortunately, there's not a lot of
> > standardization.  I know the Thunderbird invocation is something like
> >
> > mozilla-thunderbird -compose attachment=file://NEWS
> >
> > I have no idea about mutt.
>
> The mail client is a good idea. There are other places we will be able
> to look for a list of ways to do it.
>
> mutt is
>
>   mutt -a file
>
> then something I forget.

Just -a will do, plus the address you want to send it to.

However I think it would be ok to have an option or even a default of
just getting a message and sending it directly.  If the sender is
subscribed to the list or if it's cc'd to them they will have a copy
for future reference.

-- 
Martin