Hello Paul
I've just managed to successfully test an RSS feed to email service, which has (partially) simulated the Yahoo group email functionality.
This is what I did:
1. Opened http://blogtrottr.com/ in a browser.
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2. Back to the main forum and hit the RSS feed button for the category I wanted to follow.
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3. Copied the URL that appeared on the next page.
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4. Pasted the RSS feed URL into the appropriate field on the blogtrotter form, entered my email address, left the default "Real time" frequency and pressed the "Feed Me" button.
[I think if I had entered "http://www.pinballinfo.com/forums" into the URL field it would have subscribed me to all the RSS feeds (all categories/sections) in one go, but I have not successfully tested this yet, so not certain.]
Blogtrotter then sent me an email to confirm that it was really me asking for the feed (I followed the instructions in the email). I think Blogtrotter then polls the RSS feed for changes every hour and sends one email per change, see example below:
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However, it has only been a partial success. For the post I made in the test forum, I only got one email, irrespective of how many replies to the post I made. Looking at the RSS feed XML, it looks like it only contains the content from a post's first comment. Was this a design decision (e.g. to keep the size of the RSS feed down), or a limitation of the forum's functionality, or can the RSS feed be changed to include details of all replies to a post?
I've just managed to successfully test an RSS feed to email service, which has (partially) simulated the Yahoo group email functionality.
This is what I did:
1. Opened http://blogtrottr.com/ in a browser.
[attachment=130:Capture.JPG]
2. Back to the main forum and hit the RSS feed button for the category I wanted to follow.
[attachment=131:Capture1.JPG]
3. Copied the URL that appeared on the next page.
[attachment=132:Capture2.JPG]
4. Pasted the RSS feed URL into the appropriate field on the blogtrotter form, entered my email address, left the default "Real time" frequency and pressed the "Feed Me" button.
[I think if I had entered "http://www.pinballinfo.com/forums" into the URL field it would have subscribed me to all the RSS feeds (all categories/sections) in one go, but I have not successfully tested this yet, so not certain.]
Blogtrotter then sent me an email to confirm that it was really me asking for the feed (I followed the instructions in the email). I think Blogtrotter then polls the RSS feed for changes every hour and sends one email per change, see example below:
[attachment=134:Capture4.JPG]
However, it has only been a partial success. For the post I made in the test forum, I only got one email, irrespective of how many replies to the post I made. Looking at the RSS feed XML, it looks like it only contains the content from a post's first comment. Was this a design decision (e.g. to keep the size of the RSS feed down), or a limitation of the forum's functionality, or can the RSS feed be changed to include details of all replies to a post?
Personally I can always get to the forum for updates so the lack of the email is no big deal for me, but I know of at least one other person who was not adopting the forum because of the lack of this feature, so I was looking for a workaround.
