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Re: Suggestion for the mailto-link



On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 08:36:29PM +0200, Jutta Wrage wrote:
> There are two problems with the mailto-link for the webmaster on the  
> pages:
> 
> 1. If it is set to debian-www mailing list, people do not know, that  
> they are writing to a mailing list
> 2. As there is not default subject set, we cannot see, from which  
> page people come
> 
> On my own pages I have something like
> 
> <a href="mailto:debian-www@www.debian.org?subject=Comment%20on% 
> 20www.debian.org">webmaster mailing list</A> and different addresses.
> 
> I nice idea would be setting the subject to include the page:
> 
> <a href="mailto:debian-www@www.debian.org?subject=Comment%20on% 
> 20www.debian.org/path-to-page/page">webmaster mailing list</A>
> 
> And as most mail programs (MUAs) support body:
> 
> <a href="mailto:debian-www@www.debian.org?subject=www.d.o/path-to- 
> page/page?body=Please%20 note,%20that%20you%20are%20writing%20your  
> comment%20to%20a maling%20list!">webmaster mailing list</A>
> 
> There are other variants possible.

Another common problem that it would be nice to address is non-English
posts.  It would be nice if translators would direct users that don't
speak English to a localized list.

-- 
Matt

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