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Using IMAP semantics to control web publishing 5

Every time a new comment or trackback arrives here I get a new mail. Of course I read mails over IMAP, as I utilize a number of different clients. It always felt a bit clumsy to click a link to decide what happens with the new comment: should it be approved or deleted? At the end I decide twice a time what happens with the comment. First I click the link for approval or deletion, second I decide what to do with the notification mail. Why not couple these options? Every unread comment mail represents a moderated comment, if I delete the mail, the comment is deleted, if I just mark the mail as read, it will be approved. The good thing is, we have IMAP so the blog comment moderation daemon would be just another IMAP client that watches a single mail directory. Wouldn’t that be cool? Maybe Garvin would like that for Serendipity.

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Seven Things 1

I’ve got tagged by Brian DeShong and Manuel Pichler to write down seven facts about me. Quick and easy:

• Sung in a boys choir and had professional vocal training for almost ten years. We wore funny suits and it was quite cool
• Sung the alto solo of the Paul McCartney opera Liverpool Oratorio. You didn’t even know Paul McCartney wrote operas, right?
• Went to a Rudolf Steiner school for 13 years. This was not so cool as I’m not enough into mystery
• I’m together with a upcoming geologist. I’m trying to get her into the oil business against her will. We actually met on a dating portal but I have an excuse: I worked there at that time.
• I read most of the works of Theodor W. Adorno, the important ones from Karl Marx and it made me a better programmer. Not.
• I still think smoking is one of the coolist habits ever.

So here are my nominated victims:

• Johannes Steidl, my best friend, because I want to know if I guess right on what the facts are
• Lukas Smith for his efforts in bringing more structure in the PHP core development process
• Johannes Schlüter ‘cause I know he will hate it
• Karsten Gohm a new collegue of mine
• Marc Zacher, the guy who had an intimate affair with Bart
• Marc Jakubowski because of stuff like that

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