On 6/26/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
Why not the talk page? In the beginning at least, it seems quite feasible simply to append tags like:
==Incoming email 26/6/06== From: <some mangling of email address> <text.............>
Then people could deal with that text in the normal ways, adding comments as to whether they think it's worth including etc. What's the downside?
I like this idea a lot.
Accreditation in history would be a problem if the one who submitted the ticket wants credit. Some may not
True. Maybe at first simply deny them that opportunity? Or you know, in the edit summary you could always put the source so it's not *totally* lost.
Not hard to provide accreditatoin; it wouldn't show up in history, it's true. but there's a more general issue of user-login/validatoin-abstraction to be dealt with there. Edit summary is fine, for moral and gfdl purposes.
SJ