From: "Rick DeNatale" rick.denatale@gmail.com
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'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.
I did not mean to imply that such things are impossible under Windows or Linux, but was merely pointing out how simple it was to check RSS feeds in general, mentioning specifics for the platform I am most familiar with.
When all you have is a hammer, all the world looks like a nail.
I would suggest that you revisit the RSS vs email issue with an open mind. RSS was designed for the very sort of thing that MediaWiki uses it for, whereas insisting on hacking MediaWiki to use an inappropriate update mechanism (in terms of resource usage and protocol specificity) will probably not get too much sympathy here.
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