I saw that a new Chandler release came
out, and that reminded me of a missing interconnection.

I read a number of mailing lists via the excellent Gmane news gateway. This is great
because I can open a group and reply to a message.

Sometimes, though, I’ll run across a posting to some mailing list
via the list’s online archives. Replying to this is much harder —
really, absurdly hard. Mailing list archives ought to have associated
read-only imap servers, so I can drag a URL from Mozilla to my mailer
and have it magically start browsing the list in a reply-able way.

I suppose archives could add mailto: links all over. That would
work reasonably well for the particular case of replying.