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Re: Suggestion for the mailto-link



* Matt Kraai <kraai@ftbfs.org> [2005-10-10 16:12] :
> 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.

This is already done for French pages, the user is instructed to report
problems in the webpages either to debian-www in English or
debian-l10n-french in French.


Fred



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