Re: [OT] Linking to threads in this list Re: Infinite page length

[David Wright]

On Wed 20 Jan 2016 at 14:04:08 (+0000), Richard Shann wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-01-20 at 14:00 +0100, Simon Albrecht wrote:
> > On 20.01.2016 12:18, Richard Shann wrote:
> > > see the thread:
> > >
> > > Re: ly:one-page-breaking (was: ly:one-line-breaking)
> > >
> > > the last email in this thread was yesterday! Is there an easy way of
> > > linking to a thread from and email?
> > 
> > I use to search it on <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/> 
> > and insert a link to the message. If that’s ‘easy’ enough for you…
> 
> I was thinking that was too much work (open browser, find the list, find
> the message ...) when I am staring at the message right now in my email
> client. I wonder if all messages from a mailing list could have a link
> to themselves in the footer...

As you probably know, each email posting has a "unique" Message-ID in
the header, and typically this will be available in replies as the
In-Reply-To header. Earlier Message-IDs may also be included in the
References header.

Unfortunately, the system that copies the postings onto
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/ strips
these fields from the header, and considers the User-agent
a more important line. Is anyone here seriously interested
that I post with Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) wheras Urs uses
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101
Thunderbird/38.5.0?

Cheers,
David.