Hi,
The mailing-list archives have a mailto: link marked "respond to this
messages" with the suitable In-Reply-To and References headers so that a
reply can be properly threaded, even when the author did not have the
original message in their email client.
See for example at the bottom near "Mail actions":
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Sep/0454.html
The feature is great, except it does not quite work. There is some
double %-encoding going on, and References: <_foo_> is encoded as
References=%253C_foo_%253E instead of References=%3C_foo_%3E, and thus
decoded as References: %3C_foo_%3E
Please let me know if I can help further with fixing this.
Regards,
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Simon Sapin