[pmwiki-users] self-registering for notification emails

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 04:45:38PM -0400, Pico wrote:
> You could always control the Site.NotifyList by assigning a password 
> that is shared among trusted users.  On PmWiki.org, the password is 
> shared more generally among anyone who reads the list.
> 
> Don't like that?
> 
> Ok, how about using include directives to password protected author 
> pages?  Assuming that the include directive actually works in 
> SiteNotifyList to cause included notify instructions to be passed along 
> and processed, you  might be able to implement the following:

Notification entries have to be directly on the Site.NotifyList
page itself -- i.e., it won't read entries from pages added via
(:include:).  

> Example 2: Apparently narrow control farmed out to trusted individual users
> 
> Site.NotifyList
> 
>      notify=user1 at example.com (:include Profile.User1-Notify:)
>      notify=user2 at example.com (:include Profile.User2-Notify:)

My current expectation is to have

    notify=user1 at example.com watch=Profile.User1-Notify

which means to look for entries on the Profile.User1-Notify page,
and send them to user1 at example.com (regardless of any email address
listed in the Profile.User1-Notify page itself).

> With that main control, and a relatively trusted community of authors, 
> example 1 may be a suitable tradeoff (or, more specifically, transfer of 
> control).  

If you have a trusted community of authors, it's no problem to
let those authors edit Site.NotifyList directly, so Example 1
doesn't seem to add much.

Pm