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authorbremner <bremner@web>2008-07-19 19:47:45 -0400
committerJoey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2008-07-19 19:47:45 -0400
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shorten musings about encoding references
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@@ -43,17 +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/)