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#1 2007-03-20 10:59:53

Sean
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Registered: 2007-03-09
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Forum - email gateway

Please add a forum to email list gateway.

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#2 2007-03-20 13:41:40

andresmh
Scratch Team at MIT
Registered: 2007-03-05
Posts: 1000+

Re: Forum - email gateway

The forum should be sending updates via email if you subscribe to a thread. Is that not working for you? Is that what you want?

Thanks!


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#3 2007-03-21 09:56:59

Sean
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Re: Forum - email gateway

I would like to subscribe to an email list that mirrors all the
forum posts. If I could post via email, even better.

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#4 2007-03-21 10:17:04

andresmh
Scratch Team at MIT
Registered: 2007-03-05
Posts: 1000+

Re: Forum - email gateway

I see. I am afraid that as the forums grow, the amount of email that would generate would be too much? Maybe not. We will look into it. Thanks a lot for your suggestion, please let us know any other ideas you might have. This is site is still evolving.


Andres Monroy-Hernandez | Scratch Team at the MIT Media Lab
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#5 2007-03-21 11:08:42

Sean
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Registered: 2007-03-09
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Re: Forum - email gateway

I can read or ignore email much faster than
a web based forum. Too much is depends
on the tools and my time.

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#6 2007-03-23 00:38:03

nick
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Registered: 2007-03-05
Posts: 19

Re: Forum - email gateway

Hi Sean,
We have functionality that does a little bit of something like what you might like. Our forum can send you daily digests of forum posts if you enable that in your profile page (if you click "Profile" in the top blue bar of the forums). Then, on the left, you will see a link to "Email Digests." It will email you everything posted since your last login to the forums (which may include repeats if you haven't visited the forums).
Hope this helps!

Nick

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#7 2007-03-24 15:46:12

Sean
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Registered: 2007-03-09
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Re: Forum - email gateway

It helps by being push rather than pull, but digests have lots of problems:
no threading, lack of navigation and indexing because they are monolithic, require editing to save selected content, etc.  They have no advantages when one uses a a modern email client.

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#8 2007-03-24 15:55:07

nick
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Registered: 2007-03-05
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Re: Forum - email gateway

The system we are currently using does not support what you've suggested. We may add it later, but it may be in the long run. Thanks for the input!

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