[pmwiki-users] Mail Post Manual Trigger

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 11:37:41AM -0400, Radu wrote:
> What I would like to see, would be an action on the page itself, something 
> like MailThisPage, that would send a link back to the wiki only to the 
> people who have subscribed to that page. Then we shift the responsibility 
> back to the authors for letting others know when something important has 
> happened on the wiki, something that requires feedback.
> 
> I kicked the idea around for a while with Pm, but there was no expressed 
> interest from others so we dropped it. At least until I get around to 
> really needing something like it. :)

Well, I'm interested in it but I haven't happened upon a good mechanism
for handling page subscriptions.   Any mechanism we choose needs to
be mindful of not allowing email addresses to be easily harvested/revealed,
and preventing malicious/forged subscriptions.

Overall I think that a model based on WikiTrails, watchlists, or
RSS-like features may hold more promise in the longer term.

Pm

> At 08:29 PM 4/28/2005, Sivakatirswami wrote:
> >I tried setting up MailPosts for a wiki and it works, but for a few of the 
> >users I don't really want them to get irritated by trivial mail posts that 
> >are generated when I make minor changes.
> >
> >What would be better would be if, after editing a page, one could 
> >"trigger" the mail post for that particular page change, a "voluntary 
> >choice" in the moment, but, yet, still have it generates the same email w/ 
> >links that Mail Post does, and send it to the list of recipients as 
> >entered in config.php. And the mail post only indicates the changes on 
> >that one page and does not generate links to a wider range of changed 
> >pages that may have been also recently updated.
> >
> >Is there a way to do this?
> >
> >Sivakatirswami
> 
> Cheers,
> Radu
> (www.monicsoft.net) 
> 
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