# Mail list question

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mail-list-question/100748>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 31, 2006, 9:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mail-list-question/100748 "2006-07-31T21:42:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Sanjay\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Sanjay\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Sanjay_T)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 9:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mail-list-question/100748/1 "2006-07-31T21:42:11Z")

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Folks,

Is the only way to reply to a posting and maintain the mail thread by  
subscribing to the mailing list and then replying to the received email  
or  
is there another way from within the list archive itself? I don’t see a  
reply option to the emails in the thread.

Sorry if I am missing something obvious.

Thanks,  
ST

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**Author:** ![Sanjay\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Sanjay\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Sanjay_T)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 10:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mail-list-question/100748/2 "2006-07-31T22:21:25Z")

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you might want to use [www.ruby-forum.com](http://www.ruby-forum.com) which acts as a forum interface  
to  
the mailing list that isn’t read only but gives you the opportunity to  
reply…

Cheers,  
Jan

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**Author:** ![Sanjay\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Sanjay\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Sanjay_T)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 10:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mail-list-question/100748/3 "2006-07-31T22:54:34Z")

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Jan P. wrote:

> you might want to use [www.ruby-forum.com](http://www.ruby-forum.com) which acts as a forum interface  
> to  
> the mailing list that isn’t read only but gives you the opportunity to  
> reply…
> 
> Cheers,  
> Jan

Thanks Jan!

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**Author:** ![Sanjay\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Sanjay\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Sanjay_T)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 11:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mail-list-question/100748/4 "2006-07-31T23:10:16Z")

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to bad the Search is not working… Would be permanent?

Sanjay wrote:

> Jan P. wrote:
> 
> > you might want to use [www.ruby-forum.com](http://www.ruby-forum.com) which acts as a forum interface  
> > to  
> > the mailing list that isn’t read only but gives you the opportunity to  
> > reply…
> > 
> > Cheers,  
> > Jan
> 
> Thanks Jan!

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**Author:** ![Sanjay\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Sanjay\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Sanjay_T)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 2:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mail-list-question/100748/5 "2006-08-01T02:51:54Z")

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i believe you can reply to messages in the forum (might have to be  
logged in?) there’s a “reply with quote” link at the bottom right of  
the post.

i handle all of mine however through gmail though with a filter to tag  
and archive posts sent to ‘removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid’

and in answer to rosoft2001’s search question below, you can google  
the forum specifically like “google site:www.ruby-forum.com foo bar”