web commit by bremner: mention mnemosyne-blog

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@@ -7,6 +7,16 @@ I have in mind something like
     (currently every page gets a comment footer)
   * this mailto url goes to an address identifying the page  (something like
     user-iki-FE653b@host.fqdn.tld).  (DONE) 
+    > I wonder if it would be more or less natural to put an encoded form
+    > of the page name in the email address? I'm thinking about something
+    > like `wikiname+index@host` or `wikiname+todo+comment_by_mail@host`.
+    > The basic transformation would be to call `titlepage($page)` (in the
+    > C locale), followed by replacing "/" with "+" (since "/" is not
+    > valid in mails). --[[Joey]]
+    >> I guess you are right, there is no point being more obscure 
+    >> than necessary.  I am leaning towards   [something](http://www.cs.unb.ca/~bremner/blog/posts/encoding) not        
+   >> calling titlepage but in the same spirit. --[[DavidBremner]]
+
   * on the mail receiving end, these messages are either deleted, or ran through
     a filter to be turned into blog posts.
 
@@ -15,6 +25,9 @@ I have in mind something like
 
   * the same plugin can check for comments on a particular page next time the wiki 
     is generated, and add a link. (more or less done)
+    > If the filter just checks in the posts into revision control, the
+    > post-commit hook would handle updating the wiki to include those
+    > posts as they come in. --[[Joey]]
   * work in progress can be 
 
    - [cloned](http://pivot.cs.unb.ca/git/ikiperl.git), or 
@@ -23,3 +36,34 @@ I have in mind something like
 
 Any comments? Write them here or send them to [[DavidBremner]]
 
+> I don't want to derail this with too much blue-skying, but I was thinking
+> earlier that it would be nice if ikiwiki could do something sensible with
+> mailbox files, such as turning them into a (threaded?) blog display.
+> 
+> One reason I was thinking about that was just that it would be nice to 
+> be able to use ikiwiki for mailing list archives. But another reason was
+> that it would be nice to solve the problem described in
+> [[discussion_page_as_blog]]. For that you really want a threaded system,
+> and mailbox file formats already have threading.
+> 
+> If that were done, it would tie into what you're working on in an
+> interesting way, since the incoming mail would only need to be committed to
+> the appropriate mailbox file, with ikiwiki then running to process it.
+> --[[Joey]]
+>> It is an interesting idea.  I like that it uses an arbitrary MUA 
+>> as a "moderation" interface.  One thing it made me think about is 
+>> how to encode reference (threading) information. One can of 
+>> course encode this into local-part, but I wonder if it would be 
+>> better to use header features of mailto (this could also be an 
+>> alternative to tagged mail addresses for page references).  
+>> Various client handling of mailto always seemed a bit fragile to 
+>> me but maybe I am just behind the times.  Most headers are ignored, but
+>> pseudo-headers in the body might work. For example: 
+>>[test](mailto:bremner@somewhere.ca?body=X-Iki-Page:%20test%0AX-Iki-thread:%20foobar).  I hesitate to use the subject because every mail admin in the 
+>> world seems to want to add things to the front of it. 
+>> -- [[DavidBremner]]
+>>> Although it is in python, just from reading the Debian ITP, it 
+>>> looks like 
+>>> [mnemosyne-blog](http://www.red-bean.com/~decklin/mnemosyne/)  
+>>> might be an interesting backend to use or at least steal ideas 
+>>> from :-)  --[[David Bremner]]