From: "Rick DeNatale" rick.denatale@gmail.com
On 7/10/06, MHart wiki@matthart.com wrote:
Use your Recent Changes RSS feed and get an RSS feed reader. I use RSS Popper with Outlook, but there are any number of RSS readers out there.
I've been doing that for some time, but I'd prefer to get emails since that doesn't rely on me checking the rss feed.
It seems to me to be far more work to get an email than to use an RSS reader.
On MacOS X 10.4 (Tiger), put the RSS feed on your bookmarks bar, and a little number will pop up when there are changes. Other RSS readers can be configured to put a number badge on its Dock icon. Compared to discovering you have email, switching to Mail, selecting the message, and reading it, either of these are MUCH simpler!
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On 7/10/06, Jan Steinman Jan@bytesmiths.com wrote:
From: "Rick DeNatale" rick.denatale@gmail.com
On 7/10/06, MHart wiki@matthart.com wrote:
Use your Recent Changes RSS feed and get an RSS feed reader. I use RSS Popper with Outlook, but there are any number of RSS readers out there.
I've been doing that for some time, but I'd prefer to get emails since that doesn't rely on me checking the rss feed.
It seems to me to be far more work to get an email than to use an RSS reader.
On MacOS X 10.4 (Tiger), put the RSS feed on your bookmarks bar, and a little number will pop up when there are changes. Other RSS readers can be configured to put a number badge on its Dock icon. Compared to discovering you have email, switching to Mail, selecting the message, and reading it, either of these are MUCH simpler!
So let's see, rather than patching mediawiki to send me email, which is what I want, since I'm pretty much checking email all the time, it's easier to switch platforms.
Maybe for you.
To each his own.
You can get RSS readers for all platforms not just MacOS; I use one for my wiki and I find it very useful, whenever there is a change it pops up on my task bar. I guess if you have got some very specific application where you can't install additional RSS reader software then you will need to use e-mails but for everything else IMHO RSS is far better than email for this type of thing.
Arthur arthur@assys.net
On MacOS X 10.4 (Tiger), put the RSS feed on your bookmarks bar, and a little number will pop up when there are changes. Other RSS readers can be configured to put a number badge on its Dock icon. Compared to discovering you have email, switching to Mail, selecting the message, and reading it, either of these are MUCH simpler!
So let's see, rather than patching mediawiki to send me email, which is what I want, since I'm pretty much checking email all the time, it's easier to switch platforms.
On 7/10/06, Arthur Guy Arthur@assys.net wrote:
You can get RSS readers for all platforms not just MacOS; I use one for my wiki and I find it very useful, whenever there is a change it pops up on my task bar. I guess if you have got some very specific application where you can't install additional RSS reader software then you will need to use e-mails but for everything else IMHO RSS is far better than email for this type of thing.
C'mon guys. I already said that I've been using RSS to monitor my wiki for quite some time, but I'm looking for something which will put it in my face where I spend most of my time, and I'll know about even if I don't check the particular rss feed for a while.
I kind of feel like the King in the A.A. Milne poem who just wants a little bit of butter for my bread, not jam, honey, or margarine, but butter.
Enotify lets you get email if a page on your watched list changes, but as far as I know there's no way to put everything on the watchlist, nor is it possible for Enotify to notify you if a new page is added, although that appears to be somewhere on the roadmap.
I would have thought there would be a web service some ware that would take an RSS feed and turn it into an e-mail, this would have all the benefits of RSS in that there are no patches to install or maintain.
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