On Sunday, 11 December 2011 at 21:03:31 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
I'm finding myself unable to set up my own Gravatar picture
with dfeed. This is because I post on this newsgroup as
[email protected], which is a non-existent email
address. Gravatar, however, requires the email to point to an
attended mailbox because they send you the activation link to
it.
I already have a Gravatar account set up with my actual email
address. What steps could I take to associate my newsgroup post
email with my actual Gravatar account?
One of the following:
1) Temporarily make [email protected] a valid e-mail
address, and validate it on Gravatar. This will allow you to set
up a picture for it. However, Gravatar profile links only work
with the "primary" e-mail address on your Gravatar account.
2) Post with a valid e-mail address? I use a working e-mail
address, which redirects to Gmail. Uncaught spam is a very rare
occurrence (less than once a month). It is possible to use Gmail
as a spam filter, since it can both download e-mail from another
POP/IMAP server, and redirect it after it's been filtered.
3) It would be possible to add some kind of feature on DFeed
which would allow you to specify your real e-mail address, which
would be sent (obfuscated) as an extra header. DFeed would
recognize this header and use it for Gravatar display. It is
probably not worth complicating the UI for this, though.
3b) We could decide on an e-mail munging scheme that DFeed can
recognize for Gravatar displays.
