Tim <ignored_mailbox <at> yahoo.com.au> writes:
On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 14:43 +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
I'm thinking it would be nice to have the html archives set up so that, if you've logged in (as you do to change your mail settings), you could click a link in the post and the list server would ship you a copy of the post you're looking at, with all the addresses clipped, and the original sender replaced with the list address, and the message-ID intact for threading.
Sounds reasonable, and I recall some list servers already had the ability to send a particular message upon request (might have been majordomo, but it's years since I've used a service with that feature).
However, have a look at gmane.org. If you have a usenet client, you can already do this with them (albeit as news rather than mail). They may even have a reply through their webpage interface, as well. But I haven't looked for a while.
You may be re-inventing the wheel.
Well, not quite. It's a lot of loops to jump through and uses a 3rd party service. The gmane hierarchy seems a bit unnatural to me, as well. (It would seem more reasonable to me to just invert the mailing list domain name, although I suppose they may be maintaining the connection with the list's old name.)
I'm using gmane to post this, since I've switched for he moment to digest mode and I haven't figured out how to set the message-ID header using either Apple Mail or Sylpheed. It does look useful, just not for regular posting to the list.
Joel Rees