reply to posts with "no mail" option set

[David Balazic]

> ----------
> From: 	Thiers Botelho[SMTP:thiers at fosfertil-ultrafertil.com.br]
> Reply To: 	fedora-list at redhat.com
> Sent: 	17. november 2003 17:59
> To: 	fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: 	RE: reply to posts with "no mail" option set
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> |Submit a RFE for the web archive admin to include a "Reply to" button on 
> the
> |message pages.
> |
> |Otherwise you can do it manually. The mails are connected to a thread via
> |the In-Reply-To header.
> |You need the Message-Id header value. You can see it in the HTML source 
> of
> |the page.
> |Then you construct a link like this in a local HTML document :
> |
> |<a
> |href="mailto:david balazic uni-mb 
> si?Subject=the_subject&In-Reply-To=3E9
> |50615.5020503%40matroska.org"> clik here </a>
> |
> |and open it in your browser and click the link. Then you mail app should
> |open for wiriting a new mail
> |and it should make a proper reply ( just enter the message body and click
> |SEND ).
> |
> |This is tricky, but I use it when I reply to a list from its (poor) web
> |archive.
> |
> |Regards,
> |David
> 
> Nice suggestion. But looking at your post as it appears on the archive I 
> can see it just started a **new thread**, instead of becoming appended to 
> the previous one.
> 
I replyed using a mail app the standard way, so it has nothing to do with
what I
suggested.


> Maybe because you removed the **OT** . . . ??
> 
> Also, correct me if I got it wrong - you need 4 windows open to follow 
> your recipe:
> 
>         1 - browser (on archive) to view original msg
>         2 - HTML editor to prepare the link
>         3 - browser (on edited/saved HTML) to click the link
>         4 - mail app
> 
> You might do it with only 2 windows [and as a bonus get better results as 
> to thread placement . . .  :))  ] when pasting directly from browser (on 
> archive) onto mail app.
> 
You could also just construct the URL in the URL bar of the running broswer
and
press enter :-)

> You'll actually need 2 cut-paste ops - 1 for the subject and 1 for the 
> contents - but that's still faster than handling 2 additional windows.
> 
Yes, but then they wont be linked in the thread, which was the original
desire.

> BTW, I personally need a 3rd window - for the text editor to include 
> quotation marks to the left of text, as poor Lotus Notes wasn't taught how
> 
> to do that . . .      :((
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Thiers Botelho
> 
> 
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