From: "Ruth A. Kramer" <rhkramer@...>
Date: 2005-02-16T08:49:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Wikis (spawned from Re: Printing why's (poignant) guide to ruby IIRC)

Tom Counsell wrote:
> In case it is of interest, I've been experimenting with having a folder
> in my imap mailbox that I drag interesting email messages that I wish
> to archive to.  A script then periodically checks that mailbox and adds
> messages to my wiki.  The wiki doesn't need wikiwords, but instead
> makes links automatically whenever the title of a page is mentioned, so
> it forms a (for me) useful blur of a wiki and a mailing list archive.

Tom,

Excellent idea!!

Randy Kramer

May not have a chance to play in the real near future. :-(

> If you would like to play,  a rough first attempt at the code is hidden
> away in the current release of Soks -
> http://rubyforge.org/projects/soks/  - (look in
> soks/lib/helpers/mail2wiki.rb, activate by calling from your wiki
> start.rb file). I'll put some documentation up when I've polished the
> code ready for the next release, in the mean time e-mail if you need
> instructions/help.