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leitel · #32 06-29-2006, 04:15 PM

Very awesome hack. Top of my list to add. What draw me to this hack is my interest in allowing users to subscribe to Forums. In that way, whenever a new post OR and new Thread is created, they are notified.

For example, we have an "Ask a Professional" Forum. When a user posts a question in that forum, an email would be sent to any participating healthcare professionals. Before I upgraded to 3.6 beta 3, I created a hack that would automatically send an instant message to everyone in a particular usergroup, ie, healthcare pros. Some members of this group were not interested in participating and thus were being spammed with messages. So I have in mind a hack that would appear above/at every forum that would allow users to subscribe, kinda like RSS but via instant email updates.

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