Probably not, though that seems a bit nasty / tricky!

We might want to prevent someone from doing that though it probably
isn't a big deal.

These messages:


-  "Almost done! Your account still needs to be verified."
-  "Someone has registered an account with this username, but it
   still has to be verified."
   say the account needs to be verified. But really what needs to be
   *verified* is that the e-mail address belongs to the account's
   owner. The account itself needs to be *activated*.

I'd like people to be able to get news from us without comments.
The target is press and other busy, but interested, people who
would get notes when we blog and **occasional** press type email
from me.

If there's an off the rack way to have the blogs contents converted
via html2text or using a rss2email script, that's cool but
otherwise I will write a 1-2 sentence abstract and include the blog
link.

I'd be the only poster on this list. People who sign up for it
can't reply to the list. In the nitty gritty of permissions, it
probably makes sense for Will and Chris to be able to post, but in
practice, I don't picture you ever needing to post to that list.

Deb