Discussion specific (On-line/Off-line discussion) (AREV Specific)
At 20 DEC 2001 08:05:45AM Hippo wrote:
I don't know how the On-line discussion works here.
What hapens with the topic opened 5 years later or just several months?
I don't suppose that the authors remain on-line.
I vote for automatic e-mail notification to all respondents to the topic.
(It expects maintainance of e-mail addresses, but as the respondents have their own accounts, it is a minimal overhead (with AREV and OI).)
"You can be on-line even if you are off-line."
At 04 JAN 2002 11:27AM C Mansutti wrote:
That's a good idea,
but as you have not been e-mail notified, are you aware I have responded?
Claude
At 06 JAN 2002 03:27PM Hippo wrote:
Claude, thanks for response
… I check sometimes the discussion, but not very often.
(Especialy looking for the off-line support:))
At 07 JAN 2002 02:00AM Scott, LMS wrote:
Hi Hippo
Each time a post is posted, email all the thread participants, that's like a newsgroup, right? I signed up for one of those once and after a 100 silly emails an hour I unsubscribed. Although the silly emails in these forums tend to be my favourites. I can't begin to imagine the exponential number of emails under this system would be sent to Oystein and Team Sprezz.
I guess this facility would be ok if it were an option. ie you could put a flag on your account so that if someone posted to a thread you had participated in you got an email. Hippo could choose to have the flag on, and I could choose to have it switched off.
My way of noticing if an old thread has been resurrected is to check the "Flat by date" list. This only works if you check fairly often like at least once a week. What usually happens is that someone posts a new main topic with a link back to the old one.
Scott, LMS
At 08 JAN 2002 10:54AM Hippo wrote:
Dear Scott,
You are absolutely right. I expected, that those, who don't want to be e-mail notified will not fill the response e-mail address.
Setting flag off is equal to erasing the response e-mail address.
Much worse problem is if someone sets his own response address to "an enemy account".
But notifying in my proposal is limited only to topics you are participating. (I suppose one-email for topic not for participation.)
Therefore the "bulk e-mail attack" is limited. As most of the topics
expires fast. But several (I participate in such) were opened 5 years ago…
It will be very nice to set the flags not per person but per topic, but it will need much more programming (and does not solve the problem of an enemy account).
Especialy delayed set/reset flag by a "dummy" message should be incorporated.