This Mailinglist

[Martin Schmitz]

Kristian Hermansen wrote:
> What would be really cool is if the mailing list program, such as
> mailman, would place a mailto: field at the end of each message post in
> the entire list (for those that take digest form).  The feature would
> also specify in the mailto tag the poster reply to address, a cc field
> to the entire list (if necessary), the subject of that particular post,
> and the body of that poster's post.  I am pretty sure it can be done in
> a way that does not require HTML, but can still be interpreted by most
> MUAs.  Just the same way as a posted URL can be interpreted as a link
> even though no HTML code was given.  I feel this would make a nice
> mailing list feature, but obviously that is debatable when talking about
> meeting RFC and other standards.  Below is an example, but obviously, I
> don't know how this would work without HTML.
> 
> mailto:poster at email.com?subject=Re:%20This%
> 20Mailinglist&cc=ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com&body=dataFromPost

This is not a problem at all. Reasonable mailers yet interpret the
mailto url scheme as described in RFC 2368. At least with Mozilla or
Thunderbird you can try the link below. But to be honest, I don't think
many people would like to see this on the list. ;-)

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Martin