On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 17:09 -0500, Barbara Duprey wrote: > On 10/20/2010 11:50 PM, Drew Jensen wrote: > > Every web forum I know of send notification email to the original poster > > whenever a response is posted to a thread they created. > > Well now, that's *very* interesting! I clearly haven't used forums in too > long, I've never seen > this. It still doesn't help with a forum analog of this conversation, though, > since I didn't > originate this thread.
Many forums, and wiki pages, allow you to tick a box to "watch" them, even if you didn't originate them, and then you'll get a notification of each response. I agree, though, that it's a nuisance to not have the response itself show up in one's email, but only the notification. > >> I'm trying to learn about wikis so I can > >> host and manage one on this subject, but I'd gladly defer to somebody else > >> who can put one up on the > >> TDF site where it really belongs. Any takers? > > It's a wiki - be fearless..you can't really break it - well, not really > > Are you saying there's already a wiki page established that we could use to > collect all these > thoughts? Or that I could create a page off the TDF wiki (assuming I would be > able to get > appropriate authorization) and run with it? In either case, wonderful -- > what's the next step? > To edit a wiki page or add a page to the wiki, all you need is to register. No special permissions needed. Go to any wiki page and look in the upper right-hand corner for Login/Register. You'll get a standard confirmation email, which you have to respond to. --Jean -- E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
