Users like to suggest this feature... they think they want it. On small sites, it's very nice. But try it on a forum that gets 100-500 messages/day... that's a lot of e-mail when you have several hundred users subscribed. Bounce-backs, etc... if someone goes out of town for a week, the forum mail can fill up their inbox... or sometimes they'll use an auto responder/vacation response. Hassles from an admin standpoint.
I concluded that it wasn't really worth releasing as a public feature with WWWThreads, after we did it for a few users who insisted on having it. I created an account to get the mail myself, and forgot to check it a few times, then found a couple thousand messages sitting there after a week.
I think daily digests work much better.
Muhammad
I concluded that it wasn't really worth releasing as a public feature with WWWThreads, after we did it for a few users who insisted on having it. I created an account to get the mail myself, and forgot to check it a few times, then found a couple thousand messages sitting there after a week.
I think daily digests work much better. Muhammad
