From: Hugh Sasse <hgs@...>
Date: 2006-10-27T23:50:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Display Mailing List Header (Was: [empty subject])

On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Rick DeNatale wrote:

> On 10/27/06, Josef 'Jupp' Schugt <jupp@gmx.de> wrote:
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> > Erik Veenstra wrote:
> > | Try ruby-talk-ctl@ruby-lang.org.
> > 
> > If one frequently subscribes and unsubscribes mailing lists and uses
> > Thunderbird, Seamonkey, or Mozilla the "Display Mailing List Header"
> > plug-in is a nice tool.
> > 
> > For ruby-talk it adds these four items: "Help", "Unsubscribe",
> > "Post", and "Owner". All of them are hyperlinked, one simply clicks
> > on the link and Thunderbird automatically opens with appropriate
> > recipent and subject already set. The plug-in is available at
> > 
> > ~    http://cweiske.de/misc_extensions.htm#mailinglistheader
> 
> I suspect though that those who are savvy enough to find an use these
> kinds of tools don't need them.
> 
> And those who need them aren't savvy enough to find and use them.

There's an edge case: I've forgotten about tbe meta-data in headers
before now, and also the "#{list}-request@#{domain}" convention as well.
Having the machine find this stuff for you is good.
> 
> Maybe I should claim this as "Rick's conjecture",  I've got a proof
> somewhere, but I had to write it too small to actually read it. <G>
> 
        Hugh