On Fri, 16 Feb 1996 13:53:52 -0800 Joe Moore <[log in to unmask]> said: >I just spent a minute with it. It REALLY looks good. An option to reply >to <from:> or <list:> addresses would dress it up even more. We decided NOT to do that as it will most likely result in a lot of "junk" postings. A few months ago I started receiving occasional messages that would say "Geez, get real you stupid moron!", or then "Hey right on dude, these guys are just a bunch of *beep* losers!" These would come from people I'd never heard of, without any reference to anything I'd remember seeing recently. Half of the time the origin address would be invalid and I wouldn't be able to reply to ask what they were talking about. Sometimes I'd get a bounce saying no such user. Then I started to detect a pattern and eventually I figured that someone must have put a web interface with mailto tags to the archives of some list I am a member of, or more likely was a member of several years ago when I still had time to post things :-) Anyway, I don't think that inviting people to chime in with little out of context comments now and then is a good idea at all. If people have something meaningful to say, they can spend the extra 5 seconds to compose a new mail message. There just isn't enough context in a mailto tag to promote an intelligent, responsible dialog. >I will be interested to see what the options are if the archives are on >a host that is not set up for web access. The archives have to be on the same host, or at least directly accessible (LAN, NFS, etc). Eric