thanks for the advice on mutt and vim
i'm always looking for things to make my mutt better, the subscribe stuff has "always been something i've meant to look more into"
i have a custom vimrc for mail so i added your suggestions, but my awk is terrible, so i'm not even sure what that does
>
> As you're using mutt you could :
>
> add 'subscribe debian-user' to ~/.mutt/muttrc and then reply on the list
> with 'L'
>
> You could also set your editor to wrap at 72 characters to avoid sending
> very long lines, if you're using vim here is my command that I found
> somewhere, stick it in your muttrc (in one line) :
>
> set editor="vim +':set textwidth=72' +':set wrap' +\`awk '/^$/ {print
> i+2; exit} {i++}' %s\` %s"
>
>
> Philippe
>
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