shorten musings about encoding references

[ikiwiki.git] / doc / todo / comment_by_mail.mdwn

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@@ -6,17 +6,9 @@ I have in mind something like
   * add a mailto: url to each page matching some pagespec
     (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]]
-
+    user-iki-blog~I\_hate\_markdown@host.fqdn.tld).  (DONE) 
+    [more details](http://www.cs.unb.ca/~bremner/blog/posts/encoding)         
+   
   * on the mail receiving end, these messages are either deleted, or ran through
     a filter to be turned into blog posts.
 
@@ -51,17 +43,9 @@ Any comments? Write them here or send them to [[DavidBremner]]
 > 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]]
+>> as a "moderation" interface.  After I killed a debian BTS entry with 
+>> clumsy pseudoheader editing I think any 
+>> reference info should also be encoded into the address.
 >>> Although it is in python, just from reading the Debian ITP, it 
 >>> looks like 
 >>> [mnemosyne-blog](http://www.red-bean.com/~decklin/mnemosyne/)