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I like it.

Your notification e-mails were flagged as spam by Yahoo mail. Consider using DomainKeys or something like that.

I noticed your TOS requires that we only monitor sites that we own. Smart. In case someone breaks this rule, you might want to give site owners a chance to report problems. Maybe you could have a unique string in the user-agent that would let you look up which of your users created that notification?

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We put SiteCanary in the user agent for that very reason -- we figure a really curious person could figure it out from there. That said, the fastest polling period is 1 minute, so we think it would be pretty hard to DoS someone with this :-)

Good idea with DomainKeys -- gmail seems to be alright with a reverse DNS lookup resolving to our domain.

Cheers!

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