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Posted by Chris Murtland
Jun 20, 2006 at 04:41 AM
I’ve added an RSS feed for the latest 20 forum posts. This also allows a way to get email notifications when new messages are posted by using one of the following free RSS-to-email services:
http://www.squeet.com
http://www.rssfwd.com
Chris
Posted by Wojciech
Jun 24, 2006 at 07:34 PM
Chris,
Would it be possible to have a real sender of a message under the ‘From:’ header instead of ‘Chris Murtland webmaster etc’?
Thanks,
Wojciech
Posted by Chris Murtland
Jun 24, 2006 at 11:58 PM
Wojciech,
The RSS feed file format has one header where that information comes from - each individual post does not have a from field. There is an “author” field that can be associated with each item (post), but this is really for the email address of the author, and I’d prefer not to expose any member email addresses.
Once I get to the point where you can get email notifications directly from the site rather than just through RSS, I could add the poster’s information to the From header - but I’m not sure even that is a great idea because many people may not want anyone to contact them through their email address.
Chris
Posted by Wojciech
Jun 25, 2006 at 03:10 PM
Chris,
Thanks for your explanation.
>but this is really for the email address of the
>author, and I’d prefer not to expose any member email addresses.
> but I’m not sure
>even that is a great idea because many people may not want anyone to contact them
>through their email address.
Yes, sure, I understand. What I meant was the possibility to see the name displayed on a given post - and not real name or email address - rather than always yours.
Wojciech
Posted by Chris Murtland
Jun 25, 2006 at 04:08 PM
Hmm, the poster’s name or nickname should appear after the post title in each post. What feed reader software are you using, or are you using the “forum posts via email” feature?
Chris