web commit by bremner: response to Joey, segue into musing about replacing tagged addresses with pseudoheaders

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@@ -50,3 +50,15 @@ Any comments? Write them here or send them to [[DavidBremner]]
 > 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]]