e-Mail Forum(ing)
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Maybe this has been mentioned before but it would be pretty damned cool if we could: 1- get a daily email of the new threads in Forums we "subscribe" to 2- be able to post replies to threads via email. e.g. John insults me ;) and I insult him back by sending an email to a certain address at CP with the post's id in the subject I am not saying it will be easy and strict formatting would have to be applied to e-mails so that the script would know where to post the reply. Also yes it is open to abuse (10000 e-mails in reply to John in a LAS suit) but I am sure if we put our heads together we could figure out how to prevent the abuse. This could tie into the previous suggestion that the forums be "merged" with a BB system so that we can use News Readers to browse the forum. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge "In other words, the developer is dealing with an elephant, the accountant is dealing with a bunny rabbit." by Stan Shannon - 16/10/2001
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Maybe this has been mentioned before but it would be pretty damned cool if we could: 1- get a daily email of the new threads in Forums we "subscribe" to 2- be able to post replies to threads via email. e.g. John insults me ;) and I insult him back by sending an email to a certain address at CP with the post's id in the subject I am not saying it will be easy and strict formatting would have to be applied to e-mails so that the script would know where to post the reply. Also yes it is open to abuse (10000 e-mails in reply to John in a LAS suit) but I am sure if we put our heads together we could figure out how to prevent the abuse. This could tie into the previous suggestion that the forums be "merged" with a BB system so that we can use News Readers to browse the forum. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge "In other words, the developer is dealing with an elephant, the accountant is dealing with a bunny rabbit." by Stan Shannon - 16/10/2001
Forum subscriptions are on the agenda. The amount of email this would entail is the only issue here. Email replies to the forums? That's just asking for trouble ;) cheers, Chris Maunder (CodeProject)