On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 07:25:43PM +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > How do _you_ start a new thread to a mailing list?
Press 'm', type list alias + <enter>.
> My preferred method right now is to start a reply, but change the
> subject and remove the Reference header. This is of course tedious
> and error-prone. But it's also tedious to manage the list addresses
> in aliases and to enter/search the relevant address each time.
How many mailing lists per week/month/whatever must one join for
adding aliases for each to actually become tedious? And if you use
something obvious (to you) like, oh, I don't know, "mutt" (for mutt
users), or "muttd" (for mutt-dev) for your subscribed mailing list
aliases, why would you ever need to search for them?
> So what do you think about a new function "New message to list",
> assigned to M.
Seems to me you're making a mountain out of a mole hill. I'll concede
it is marginally more convenient to hit one key stroke, instead of
roughly six ('m' plus some short alias) when the MUA already knows
what list to post to, so I personally don't really have any strenuous
objection to adding such a feature if someone felt like coding it up.
It just seems like a waste of time to me.
Such a feature, to be robust, would need to cope with the case where
the message was cross-posted to several mailing lists to which the
user was subscribed. You'd probably want it to present a menu to
select from. That seems like a lot of complexity to save a couple of
key strokes.
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