Do you have a MUA ready to follow mailto: links?
- Follow the
reply
link on one of the blog entries. Or copy and paste the address. It has the form:comment-<path.to.post>@khjk.org
- Put your comment text into the body of the email. The subject is
ignored. You can use email-style
ASCII art markup
like *asterisks* for bold face, /slashes/ for emphasis, >-style quotes, etc.
- A
little
script (actually, it got partly hideous with all the email parsing and whatnot) receives the message via procmail and decides to forward it for moderation.
- I read the email like all the others (i.e: on my phone or whatever) and if it's ok simply forward it back to the comment address. This leaves my PGP signature on it.
- The little script does a few checks, recognizes the signature, and stores the included message somewhere the site generator will find it.
- The site's HTML content is regenerated. If the From: address contained a name, that will be shown as the comment's author. To remain anonymous, leave out your name (that's a slogan). The address itself will never be revealed, of course.
- To post a reaction to a comment, I can reply to the OP's email, leaving
the comment address in Cc (group reply).
In theory, the reply will already carry my signature and go directly
through the little script and appear as a comment on the site.
Unfortunately, this doesn't work in the current reality: Little
script needs the signature over the entire comment message (a
mime part of type message/rfc822) to check the metadata for
consistency.
This is the case with forwarded messages,
but in a
regular
signed email, the signature only extends across the text/plain body. So, if you want to do me a great favour, add an option to mutt to sign headers by using a message/rfc822 part:
vs.multipart/signed application/pgp-signature message/rfc822 -- includes headers AND bodymultipart/signed application/pgp-signature text/plain -- only the message body :(
- Obviously, this game can go on through the entire thread of discussion by just keeping the comment address in Cc at all times.
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