In reply to Danny Brown.

Thanks for this detailed explanation of how Postmatic works. I really like that idea of holding comments based on quality. As Postmatic is working on native comments, there's no reason Postmatic shouldn't be compatible with our TC.

With Postmatic one is dependent on a third party service but there's not a lot of lock-in. We'll do some testing to make sure TC is fully compatible. In particular, we'll test with Replyable as comments by email is legitimately a service and the pricing is completely reasonable. If it works, that's the beauty of all developers building respectfully around native comments rather than using alternative tables or taking over comment functionality completely.

Comments Plus with Thoughtful Comments gives you image posting in comments plus comment notifications (using [WP Better Emails](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-better-emails/) for beautification which you should be using anyway for even your admin notifications so it's not extra work to set up). That still isn't reply by email, which is truly an awesome feature.

Again Danny, thanks for walking us all through the reply by email process from a publisher's perspective.