Chris Withers wrote:

I'd like it, but people have whinegd in the past that the footers are too lond already :-(

I know there's some way of representing mailing list information in the email message headers, understood by some MUA's. Perhaps this can go there? Then at least people & tools who can view headers can easily find a post's URL w/o having to hit the web. -- Jean Jordaan Upfront Systems http://www.upfrontsystems.co.za

Tim Hicks wrote:

Apparently it's not possible as Mailman doesn't talk directly to the archiving program (Pipermail?), which is what actually determines the url I think.

All might not be lost! Here's an URL for my previous message in the thread: http://news.gmane.org/article.php?group=gmane.comp.web.zope.general&id=%3C3D... I.e. call 'http://news.gmane.org/article.php' with 'group=gmane.comp.web.<mailinglist id>' and 'id=<Message-ID from the message headers>' as arguments. So per-message URLs can already be derived from message headers .. in fact, you should also be able to get an NNTP URL (or whatever it's called in that context) for reaching the message using a newsreader. No I just have to figure out why nntp://news.gmane.org refuses to let me connect .. -- Jean Jordaan Upfront Systems http://www.upfrontsystems.co.za