I have them going to a thread on our forum, and find that to be the best way. It's a thread within a private sub forum, which only moderators can see. It works fine that way.

Why aren't you using you're server to send mail directly to you, instead of having it relay them through a third party?

yes - I think you mean have them sent to an email account on the server itself?
That would work fine - but accessing the server's webmail system is horribly slow.
So was having them sent to a gmail account which worked great - up until this weekend.

Posting to a thread worked fine for me too but then some weird bug popped up where RSS posts were being sent to moderation. Kevin found out what the bug was (something to do with SOM) talked with their authors who supposedly will be putting out a fix for it.

Just wondering though - do you also have RSS feeds being posted to a thread yourself
(without them being sent to moderation)?

I'm referring to using a POP3 or imap account on the server, and fetching it via Thunderbird, Outlook or whatever email client you choose.

the google webmail was just more convenient - access from anymachine with a browser

Unfortunately the way it stands right now the notifications are useful for making sure you've got it set up right, but it's probably a better idea to have them turned off most of the time (no matter if your using email or thread posting), because there's nothing limiting them. What is really needed is an option to log the attempts and send notifications in batches, and/or to limit the attempts from a given ip.

My current situation is such that I'm not planning on any vb modification work in the near future, but I'm kind of tempted now to make some time for this.

Or maybe you can send them to a log file like spam-o-matic does where you can view it in the ACP ?

Oh...yeah, that's a great idea. I don't know why I didn't think of that. I guess it's because I'm not too familiar with the vb logging stuff. Anyway, I actually already have a version that does logging, it just needs to be finished up and tested. If I can change it to use the vb logging, that might speed things up.

cool - thanks for your time adding even more to this mod!
I'll be able to do some Beta testing too if you want :)