[arbuge]

It's a wonderful project. There's something romantic about it, for sure.

And if I could plug my own project, you could also do it by just sending emails: https://publicemails.com.

[kroltan]

Ironically, it seems like half of the emails there are just spam.

[arbuge]

It's a free service right now. I'm thinking converting it to a paid one like the one in the article might solve this problem.

[kroltan]

To be clear I did not mean it as a dig on your service! It's a really cool idea, sorry for not saying it before. It was just a perfect irony.

You could also do some heuristics like not accepting emails with excessive HTML. Though I'm not sure how much it'd work, since you already require confirmation so presumably the spammers actually have someone authorizing the publication. (I didn't test your flow since I have nothing that warrants posting to say)

[q-base]

That is a really neat idea. Thanks a lot for sharing!

[robertlagrant]

Neat idea :)