Date   : Sun, 10 Feb 2008 10:07:56 +0000
From   : mike@... (Mike Tomlinson)
Subject: Text screen?

In article <47ACEBBC.2000904@...>, Mark McDougall
<msmcdoug@...> writes

>It's annoying because there's no good reason for it. This is now the 17th! 
>mailing list that I currently subscribe to, and the *only* one that I can't 
>simply hit 'reply' to 

It depends on your mail client.  One which obeys the RFCs correctly and knows
about the mailing-list-specific lines inserted into the header will do the
Right Thing.  Here's an example of those header lines:

Precedence: list                                                           
List-Id: BBC Micro & related machines <bbc-micro.lists.cloud9.co.uk>       
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.cloud9.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/bbc-micro>,
        <mailto:bbc-micro-request@...?subject=unsubscribe>
         
List-Archive: <http://lists.cloud9.co.uk/pipermail/bbc-micro>              
List-Post: <mailto:bbc-micro@...>                           
List-Help: <mailto:bbc-micro-request@...?subject=help>      
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.cloud9.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/bbc-micro>,
        <mailto:bbc-micro-request@...?subject=subscribe>
           

F'r ex, my mail client, which is mailing-list aware, pops up a dialogue box
saying "Do you want to reply by making a posting to the mailing list or by
sending a private email?" with "list" and "private mail" click buttons.

Of course, it would be too much to expect Microshitware to adhere to the RFCs.
"Embrace and extend", remember?

Your beef is not with the guy who runs the BBC mailing list, but the producer
of the mail client you use to read it.

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