Re: Reply button - why not cc: the list?

Well now I have an idea.

Junk the "mailto:" idea , it does not appear to apply the correct 
"In-Reply-To" and "References" headers anyway. So the threading will be up the 
spout, which is the original problem.

The "Reply List" button could just link to a mail form on the website hosting 
the list (i.e. nothing to do with mail-archive.com) which could then choose to 
send mail to its own list.

I have not looked in detail but it it probably not possible to customize ones 
pages in this degree of detail, i.e. add a button. But maybe an idea?

/Dan

Jeff Marshall wrote:

> (Mail Archive admin jumping in)
> 
> We don't want to post back to lists via the archive-piJqB+B6DfPJghKJT/[email protected] address.  Spamming would be too easy and many lists want to have controlled subscriber/poster lists.  We like the fact that no mail heads outbound from our server.
> 
> Jeff Marshall
> [email protected]
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:  Stephen Turner 
> Date:  6/28/05 8:17 am
> To:  [email protected]
> Subj:  Re: [Gossip] Reply button - why not cc: the list?
> 
> On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Torsten Schlabach wrote:
> 
>>>I think that even with two buttons you'd make casual surfers (people
>>>referred from Google, say) believe they can reply to the list when they
>>>can't.
>>
>>Can't they? The archive is subscribed to the list. So the archive would be
>>able to send messages to the list on behalf of the user, wouldn't it?
>>
> 
> 
> I never thought of that. But as a list owner, I'm not sure I'd want people 
> being able to send messages to the list that way. It would defeat the 
> subscription mechanism, and allow anyone (including spammers) to send 
> anonymous messages.
> 

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