hey corbet, I responded to this article earlier today (see comment 371349) but it doesn't show up as a reply to this article. Is this a bug in your site?
Apache Software Foundation releases SpamAssassin 3.3.0 (The H)
Posted Jan 27, 2010 14:55 UTC (Wed) by corbet (editor, #1)
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The comment you mention is not published; mostly likely you got to the preview page and didn't do that final click on the "Publish" button. Occasionally that burns somebody, but I really believe in looking at comments before making them public...
Apache Software Foundation releases SpamAssassin 3.3.0 (The H)
Posted Jan 27, 2010 19:36 UTC (Wed) by rahvin (subscriber, #16953)
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Off topic but IMO your approach is the correct one.