Sunday
22 February 2015; 9:21 a.m. - 11:24 a.m.
A few more-technical notes for those who might be interested.
From my limited amount of testing, I have found:
Comments
It appears that (anonymous) comments posted to the blog will not be sent to subscribers of the blog. They can be sent to email subscribers of the blog (if I remember to specifically sign them up to receive both changes to the blog and to any comments made to the blog).
Google Email
On the Google email side of things, it would be possible to "subscribe" to changes to the blog by receiving forwarded messages from skykingmeadows@gmail.com (since all SKM mail is published to the blog). Some direct messages (like my messages, for example) go straight to the blog, so this not all-inclusive. I expect also, there is a limited number of people to whom Google mail can be forwarded to.
It is possible to "send mail from a different account or alias" (link to Google help page). But you must own the other account (i.e. have that password), so that does not help us in our particular situation.
Email Delegation
It is also possible, and is a far more promising solution, to "[set] up email delegation" (Google help page link). This means we can delegate access to the SKM Gmail account to another person so they can read, send and delete messages on SKM's behalf. Email will appear as sender as: Sky King Meadows (sent by [Delegate Name]). I have tested this and found that blog articles sent by a delegate will be posted without error.
If someone has granted you access to their account, you can access it by clicking on their profile picture or email address (upper-right corner). Because of this, I quickly created a SKM icon which would be different from anyone's photo. This can (should be?) changed with something better later.
Limits: You can specify up to 10 delegates. Delegatees can access up to 10 accounts. (Google Apps for Business, Education, and Government customers (which SKM is not) can specify up to 25 delegates and can access up to 512 accounts.)
Subscribing to Blog
If you subscribe to the blog (which is done from the website only), I don't think I have the ability access to your email address. However, since I don't care, I have not looked to see if it is possible. Full disclosure.
Disclaimer
Email (and direct-message tweets?) to a person is generally thought of as private. SKM is a subdivision, but the name is a ".com" (company). I would conclude that a reasonable person should know that a message sent to a subdivision will be spread to all members of the subdivision (i.e. made public) in order to be effectively answered/considered; this necessitates copying of that message as well. Therefore, because it should be understood that the message will be copied and is not private, I believe we need not have any additional disclaimer informing people that messages sent to SKM will be copied and will be made public. This is my opinion only, not legal advice. – Speaking of disclaimers. ☺
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