Living Document Notice
Staged 2026-09-28. Living revisions and interconnected notes live in the Bosun PKM Garden.
Epistolary Archives and Inbound-Outbound Letter Threads
Preserving historical correspondence, personal letters, and epistolary exchanges requires structured metadata indexing and chronological thread tracking. Dispatch organizes inbound and outbound letters into durable plain-text Markdown dossiers.
Correspondence Invariants
- Thread and Participant Metadata: Letters record explicit sender and recipient rosters, timestamps, and postal postmarks in YAML frontmatter.
- Epistolary Chronology: Message threads serialize into chronological sequences to preserve conversational context across decades.
- Content-Addressed Scans: High-resolution scans of original handwritten letters verify against immutable cryptographic hashes.
Structured epistolary archives protect historical correspondence from degradation and loss.
- Directus Target: dispatch-blog
- Garden Source Reference: MOC - Dispatch Correspondence Engine, MOC - Fleet Operations, LIN-1001 - Lineage and Genealogy Archives