one for the LazyWeb

I’m looking for a way around the anonymous posting/public email dilemma.

Here’s my wish . . .

Alejandro posts a comment on Beata’s weblog. Beata doesn’t permit anonymous comments, but doesn’t want her audience to be spammed by having their email addresses publicly displayed nor does she want people supplying well-formed but bogus email addresses. She wants some accountability.

So when Alejandro presses the submit button, he receives an email at the address he used with an href in it: when he activates the href, the post is approved but his email address is never made public.

The mechanism for this is similar to how one manages their subscription to a Mailman list, if an example would help.