Re: New user introduction

David Ascher <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.pyblosxom.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 08:20:45 +0100, Richard Taylor
<[email protected]> wrote:

> One positive side of this approach is that there is no need for any
> authentication of the blogs. The users do not need to have a
> username/password on the blogging server (users are fed up with managing lots
> of username/passwords). Authentication is done by checking the From address
> of the incoming email.

Which is probably enough authentication for an internal blog, but also
suggest...

> The missing thing at the moment is deleting mistaken entries. At present the
> user must ask me to log in and manually remove the entry. I am not sure how
> to solve this.

Idea: on accepting a post, the blogging system sends a message back to
the poster saying "your post was added.  To _delete this post_, just
reply to this email."

You then just need to do email parsing to figure out which posts to
delete on receipt of the replies.

Works?

--david


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