Add the ability to comment/post via the website

[ForbesLindesay]

Add a section at the bottom of each topic to allow people to add a comment (depends on #12). This would need to then send an e-mail to the es-discuss mailing list. I think this would greatly enhance the input es-discuss gets from developers. It could also include a "preview" feature, which would encourage people to write well formed markdown.

[domenic]

I've noticed that the w3.org mailing lists have this functionality in their web interfaces, e.g. see "respond to this message" on public-script-coord. It looks like the "In-Reply-To" and "References" headers are the important ones.

[ForbesLindesay]

Good point, we do have access to those headers in the mongodb database, so that shouldn't be too difficult. I was thinking we could create a form for entry, but just relying on people's own e-mail programmes would be a good start.

Do you know what moderation's like for non-members posting to es-discuss?

[domenic]

FWIW I really like the form idea (especially with the preview), so yeah, definitely go there eventually---even if not immediately.

As for moderation, I'm not sure. I know even for members their spam filter can be overzealous, which sometimes Brendan adds people to a list in order to bypass. So there's possibly two tiers: members, and members-on-Brendan's list.

[ForbesLindesay]

Yep, I'm happy with a quick interim solution. I can't see myself getting round to the fully awesome solution till the summer unfortunately.