From d52e0f08b9c737d7ebecd95491e4278299716659 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bremner Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:47:45 -0400 Subject: shorten musings about encoding references --- doc/todo/comment_by_mail.mdwn | 14 +++----------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/todo/comment_by_mail.mdwn b/doc/todo/comment_by_mail.mdwn index a79a06078..d0a9b8283 100644 --- a/doc/todo/comment_by_mail.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/comment_by_mail.mdwn @@ -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/) -- cgit v1.2.3