From 9c41769673544dee1fd2a822b17b3df3aa6c90e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joey Hess <joey@kodama.kitenet.net>
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 20:50:48 -0400
Subject: idea

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@@ -36,3 +36,17 @@ 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]]
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