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The automatic postings by listbot should contain the original source URL. Some posts are not helpful if there is no way to get to the project's website. Also the formatting of the automatic excerpt is sometimes broken, so I would prefer the original posts on the project's website.

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Thanks for the constructive criticism, it's a good suggestion - I've been contemplating the same myself. I'll look into how I can obtain official original links (currently the information is fed via email).

In some cases the List-Archive header contains a HTTP link to the mail in the archive. But often enough it is just a link to the archive in general, so not a general solution.

You could leverage the Gmane archive, which allows linking to mails by Message-Id like this: http://mid.gmane.org/<CA+55aFx93de2f2bRbCp74uNX0LxkgpSKE8uOG...

Thanks for the suggestion! Will definitely look into that!

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