Glacial Erratics

purple transclusion proxying

May 29, 2003

Putting this here because I want to remember it for later.    (0000UD)

Now that I have the blog and wiki doing TransClusion, I want it in my email. I often want to reuse content from the email I send and the email I receive.    (0000UE)

A hacky way to do this, using the hacky way that TransClusion is curerntly done would be to deliver all email to a modified mhonarc archive that purples messages using the same sequence genrator as the blog and wiki. Outgoing messages could be filtered either through the PurpleWiki parser or a simple text filter that would expand transclusion tags.    (0000UF)

At first glance this may seem a bit bogus as the archive content never changes: why transclude instead of copy. Well, for starters it gives you easy access back to the original content.    (0000UG)

And having purple numbers on all of one's mail would be handy.    (0000UH)

I'm to the point now where I'm hesitant to write something if it isn't getting purple numbers.    (0000UI)

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