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A mailto: link provides most of the advantages of the comments: a way to report errors, suggestions, ask questions and even get to know each other.

And it uses the most popular federated protocol, so most users won't have to create a n ew account.

Also spam is not a problem, comments stay private.

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My old blogs all had an email address on them as well as comments. Some people did email me and it was useful, but far more preferred to comment because they wanted to share their thoughts publicly.

It's probably why you wrote this comment rather than just emailing someone.

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