Merge branch 'master' of ssh://git.ikiwiki.info/srv/git/ikiwiki.info

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diff --git a/doc/todo/Google_Sitemap_protocol.mdwn b/doc/todo/Google_Sitemap_protocol.mdwn
index 4de7168d2..39a3522d2 100644
--- a/doc/todo/Google_Sitemap_protocol.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/Google_Sitemap_protocol.mdwn
@@ -38,3 +38,5 @@ for an example.  You will probably need to strip out the metadata variables I
 According to [Google Webmaster tools](https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/), my site isn't indexed for weeks at a time. Since I [blog](http://webconverger.org/blog/) every couple of days, that doesn't work. Yes I do have pingurl configured which [Google reader](http://reader.google.com/) does pick up quickly, but **not** the general search results from Google.
 
 There is a [sitemap XML standard](http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.php) that ikiwiki needs to generate for. 
+
+Update: I've since discovered under [Google Webmaster tools 'Subscriber stats'](https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/subscriberstats), you can tell Google to treat a feed as a sitemap. Therefore in many cases just submitting your [[ikiwiki/blog/]]'s feed will be enough for Google to start better indexing your ikiwiki site.
diff --git a/doc/todo/comment_by_mail.mdwn b/doc/todo/comment_by_mail.mdwn
index 4ed08e929..a1d364f11 100644
--- a/doc/todo/comment_by_mail.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/comment_by_mail.mdwn
@@ -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]]