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matteox · #1 11-21-2002, 06:21 PM

has anyone got a hack to implement email notification whenever a post is posted in a forum by 'Subscribing to a Forum' like you would subscribing to a thread ?

There are a few workarounds suggested using email distribution lists etc... but these are messy.

thanks,

matteox

Logician · #2 11-22-2002, 09:33 AM

Although a few lines of code will do the trick, it's not a good idea to hack vb for this and this is why it hasnt been done yet:

Forum subscribers can get crowded in time and can reach to numbers so high that it would take so long to send a notification message to all. This would cause "weird problems" like creating a thread post taking a very long time, giving timeout errors, busying your server a lot, sending the posts to some users and fail to send others etc.

To handle this job, you have to build up a completely different structure which will slowly (in small groups) notify forum subscribers in a distrubed time period so it's not a 2 min. hack.

Vb3 might have a solution for this. Or even if it does not, it would be easier to code this structure depending on its software CRON feature.

Sebastian · #3 11-22-2002, 03:41 PM

yeah, could you imagine if 50 member subscribe to a forum and 2 - 3 people reply within 30 seconds ... LOL.

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