Is there a way to "approve" email followers before they are allowed to follow?

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  haro1232012 · Member · Jan 6, 2013 at 1:19 am

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  Is there a way to “approve” email followers before they are allowed to follow?

  Otherwise – anyone can follow your blog – right ?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Jan 6, 2013 at 1:20 am

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  No one who chooses to have a public blog can delete or block an subscriber and “no” they don’t get to approve them.

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  timethief · Member · Jan 6, 2013 at 1:22 am

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  Also note that anyone can subscribe to the feed of a public blog. If you are into that kind of control then you can make the blog “private” and use invitations. http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/

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  auxclass · Member · Jan 6, 2013 at 1:26 am

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  Also you don’t need to do email to follow a blog – I follow about 15 blogs but only two are by email – I use the reader that WordPress.COM has built into the home page – they can also use any one of many RSS readers to subscribe

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  timethief · Member · Jan 6, 2013 at 1:28 am

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  @auxclass
  Me too. I’m not into getting flooded by email at all.

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  haro1232012 · Member · Jan 6, 2013 at 1:41 am

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  Thanks all – yeah, that is what we might be thinking – cut the site over to private and use invites.

  Can kill thread – I have my answer.