I'm trying to expand the functionality of this blog with little or no overhead expense to Xanga.  My Atomz Search (see blogs below or search modules at side and bottom of this page) is one such foray.  It provides rich search results, as Google would, from a non-Xanga server.

Below is my next foray: Providing a mechanism for non-Xangans to leave comments and even a vast array of smilies ( -though you have to type the code).

This third-party free comment applet is provided by *enetation* (as in eNet-ation, a play on the word "annotation").  Here's how the service describes itself:

Full template support...
Forum code (such as smiles and url conversion)...
Comments can open in a popup window, or open in the same window...
Users can edit and delete posts...
Ban users by IP address...
Fully customizable comments link (e.g. Comments[0], or '3 comments', etc.). ...
Code generator for Blogger , Big Blog Tool , Diary-X , Radio UserLand Scribble...
Remembers the name, e-mail, and homepage used by your visitors, so that they don't have to type it in each time...
Login via your own comments box...
Supported by UK Hosting company so no downtime or bandwidth shutdowns...
Allowing signups when others do not or limit them...
Based on fast PHP and mySQL coding (no slow cgi here!)...
Friendly development team dedicated to helping you set your blog up..
Login via your own comments box using login: as username...

So far, so good?  While there is a standard automated javascript implementation that doesn't work with Xanga, there is also a fallback to a manually-numbered html-script implementation that does!

My only concern, so far, is the performance/speed of comment submission/return.  Still, even if it isn't as fast as the native Xangan engine, it will provide a slightly more patient non-Xangan the opportunity to submit a comment to my posts.  And it will, though this is daring, even allow you, my fellow xangaroos, to submit fairly anonymous comments-ha!

Update: Actually, it occurs to me that this could be used most propitiously by somebody who wants to elicit comments, but no eProps.  In that case, you could "email it" from Xanga but leave this comment applet available.  Also, on the rare occasion that Xanga has allowed browsing but denied commenting due to database lockups, this would remain a viable alternative for two-way exchanges.

So without further ado, if I stick with this, all my posts henceforth shall end with:

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