James E. Lang wrote:
--On Sunday, November 01, 2009 10:11:27 AM -0600 Barbara Duprey
<[email protected]> wrote:
Just a thought -- there is a link that can be provided into the
archives for
a particular thread. What if either (in order of preference) the list
manager, a moderator, or anybody on the list who knows how, sent a
message to
the unsubscribed poster containing that link? The poster would not
have to
subscribe (thereby getting what could potentially be a dismaying
number of
messages -- and often leading to a "please unsubscribe me" message). Yet
they'd be able to follow the discussion, wouldn't they, to see any
responses
on the thread?
I don't know if it is doable to send an automatic reply to anyone who
starts a new thread saying, "http://... can be used to monitor this
message and its responses." An alternative would be to only send this
message to those who are unsubscribed at the time they start the new
thread. This is a short and sweet message and if it can be automated
it will place little burden on any person or resource.
I agree, and note that I mentioned "the unsubscribed poster" above. And
as you pointed out, it should only happen with the start of a new
thread. There's an In-Reply-To header if the message is not starting a
new thread, so that could be used to differentiate the two cases. One
wrinkle I hadn't considered before your post, though, is that the unsub
may hijack an existing thread when he is actually starting a new one,
and I don't know if that case could be automated at all. That might mean
that the moderator (or, less desirably, one of the users who cares about
this stuff) might have to get involved, at least for the hijacked
threads. Does anybody see a way to automate it?
By the way, if anybody wants to see the effect of this link, my message
starting this thread is below, and the "Browse this thread" option will
let you see how it works. I couldn't find the "magic number" anywhere in
the header, though, I had to search the archive. Does anybody have a
recommendation about how best to get the number as a general case?
Looking in the archives for the relevant date and locating it from there?
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