Now it's cooking!

So far I’ve been able to construct a system pretty much the way I initially envisioned it by leveraging existing paid services (i.e., my own domain, email and filters) and free services (i.e., Gmail & Blogger/Blogspot). I set up a “poor man’s spam filter” on the account that cybercomment@gmail.com forwards to. This cuts every one out EXCEPT those on the whitelist. Simultaneously, everything which is not let through goes through my regular spam filter, so I get to see the good submissions by real people and I can then

1)      Forward them along to the gmail account,

2)      Add the sender’s email to the whitelist.

I started out with a short whitelist including my own email address for testing.