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New comment by email policy

In an attempt to reduce spam, I'm now rejecting any email comments that are addressed to weblog entries which are over 30 days old.  Implementing this only took a few minutes work, but required me to break a few abstractions in my implementation.  Undoubtedly, this will get cleaned up in a refactoring, but a review of the code reveals a number of related items:

Each is based on exploiting a fundamental characteristic of SMTP: namely that it is a protocol that enables without obscuring.

One of those things where you should do what you want, but if nobody complains, you'll never know: now that SharpReader's using <slash:comments>, I'm even more likely to click the link from the <comments> element to see what the previous ten or fifteen people had to say, realizing what I've done a bit too late every time as a compose email window pops up.

Posted by Phil Ringnalda at

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