Aurora 4x

Off Topic => Off Topic => Topic started by: Erik L on December 26, 2006, 03:46:32 PM

Title: Off site notifications
Post by: Erik L on December 26, 2006, 03:46:32 PM
I've continued to search for email addins. However the ones that do what we are all looking for require cron or a similar function available. My host (yahoo) does not provide this on the accounts.

So I've started recently looking at RSS feeds.
Title: Re: Off site notifications
Post by: Steve Walmsley on December 27, 2006, 07:26:22 AM
Quote from: "Erik Luken"
I've continued to search for email addins. However the ones that do what we are all looking for require cron or a similar function available. My host (yahoo) does not provide this on the accounts.

So I've started recently looking at RSS feeds.


For the less technically minded amongst us :) What is cron and what is an RSS feed?

Steve
Title: Re: Off site notifications
Post by: Erik L on December 27, 2006, 08:35:32 AM
Quote from: "Steve Walmsley"
Quote from: "Erik Luken"
I've continued to search for email addins. However the ones that do what we are all looking for require cron or a similar function available. My host (yahoo) does not provide this on the accounts.

So I've started recently looking at RSS feeds.

For the less technically minded amongst us :) What is cron and what is an RSS feed?

Steve


Cron is a unix utility that allows you to run a job at a specific time or times.
RSS is... I believe Really Simple Syndication. Basically digests but sent to a browser instead of email.
Title: Re: Off site notifications
Post by: Erik L on December 27, 2006, 08:35:48 AM
Quote from: "Steve Walmsley"
Quote from: "Erik Luken"
I've continued to search for email addins. However the ones that do what we are all looking for require cron or a similar function available. My host (yahoo) does not provide this on the accounts.

So I've started recently looking at RSS feeds.

For the less technically minded amongst us :) What is cron and what is an RSS feed?

Steve


Cron is a unix utility that allows you to run a job at a specific time or times.
RSS is... I believe Really Simple Syndication. Basically digests but sent to a browser instead of email.
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Post by: Anonymous on December 28, 2006, 10:33:23 AM
How about adding the yahoo group to the digest subscription? That way everything gets sent to the yahoo group too.

--Mav
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Post by: Erik L on December 28, 2006, 10:43:35 AM
Quote from: "Anonymous"
How about adding the yahoo group to the digest subscription? That way everything gets sent to the yahoo group too.

--Mav


It's not quite that simple. The individual users must decide to subscribe to the digests (and you'd still need to be subscribed to the forums here to follow the links, once I get them working properly). Of course, for replies, you'd also need to be registered here.

I'll give it a shot though. See what happens.
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Post by: sloanjh on December 29, 2006, 11:37:01 AM
Quote from: "Erik Luken"
Quote from: "Anonymous"
How about adding the yahoo group to the digest subscription? That way everything gets sent to the yahoo group too.

--Mav

It's not quite that simple. The individual users must decide to subscribe to the digests (and you'd still need to be subscribed to the forums here to follow the links, once I get them working properly). Of course, for replies, you'd also need to be registered here.

I'll give it a shot though. See what happens.


Errrr this is a suggestion to make "aurora@yahoo.com" (or whatever the yahoo group is) into a subscriber of the digests, rather than signing up everyone who's in the yahoo group for email, right?  I'm in the yahoo group, but I don't want to receive the digest emails.

Thanks,
John