Re: mailing a copy of a message from an archive

[DMckeon@swcp.com (Denis McKeon)]

In <20020930144137.GQ4361@pc.ilinx>,
mhonarc@interlinx.bc.ca <mhonarc@interlinx.bc.ca> wrote:
>
>Frequently, when I am browsing an archive, I would like to repsond to
>a message I find in it.  I would like to respond, using my own MUA
>however.  What would be really nice is an option, when viewing a
>message, to "bounce" it to my e-mail address where I can read (and
>respond to) it in my own MUA.
>
>Thots?

Possibilities: 

User side:

    Put some smarts in your browser to screen scrape the message,
    parse it, and mail it to your address; 
    
    or do the same by hand with cut & paste;

    or put some smarts in your MUA to accept a URL, screen scrape the
    message at that URL, parse it, and format it for a response;
    
Archive side:

    Configure the archive to have a "view original message format"
    (as Google does with archived news postings) so you could select
    the entire original article & save it as a file, then invoke your
    MUA on the file (or URL, as above);

    or put some CGI or other code on the archive site to forward the
    message - and that code should not be exploitable for mail-bombing
    (to mail messages to many addresses).



-- 
Denis McKeon

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