web commit by BrandenRobinson: Add brainstorming about email change notification.

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@@ -19,6 +19,28 @@ is built. (As long as all changes to all pages is ok.)
   already, so just look at the userdb, svnlook at what's changed, and send
   mails to people who have subscribed.
 
   already, so just look at the userdb, svnlook at what's changed, and send
   mails to people who have subscribed.
 

+  A few details:
+  1. [[Joey]] mentioned that being able to subscribe to globs as well as
+     explicitly named pages would be desirable.
+  2. I think that since we're using Perl on the backend, being able to
+     let users craft their own arbitrary regexes would be good.
+  3. Of course if you do that, you want to have form processing on the user
+     page that lets them tune it, and probably choose literal or glob by
+     default.
+
+  The first cut, I suppose, could use one sendmail process to batch-mail all
+  subscribers for a given page.  However, in the long run, I can see users
+  demanding a bit of feature creep:
+
+  4. Each user should be able to tune whether they see the actual diff parts or
+     not.
+  5. Each user should be able to set a maximum desired email size.
+  6. We might want to support a user-specified shibboleth string that will be
+     included in the email they receive so they can easily procmail the messages
+     into a folder.
+
+  --[[BrandenRobinson]]
+

 ## pluggable renderers
 
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 ## pluggable renderers
 
 I'm considering a configurable rendering pipeline for each supported