My followers have REPLIED to the automatic update email from domains such as gmail.com, hotmail.com. yahoo.com, and many, many others. Only one or two have actually made it to my blog as comments.
When the press REPLY on the wordpress update email, the address it sends replies to is:
Shear Madness <comment+rfk537-gjqeqc5-81a3c0ga@comment.wordpress.com>
and this is what they see:
From: Shear Madness [mailto:comment-reply@wordpress.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 2:20 PM
To:[email redacted]
Subject: [New post] 2012-11-12 Back to Normal
Kathy Clark posted: "November 12, 2012 [caption id="attachment_2431" align="alignright" width="300"] Bradley and Jeff - couldn't they be brothers?[/caption] Sandy is gone and so is the Nor'easter that followed her. So things on Shear Madness are back to norm"
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