Randy, that was just an example. There are many mods that will
accomplish exactly what you mentioned. Here are just a few more
examples that I found, there are many more if you search some more:
http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=1095015
http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=1484185&p=8842175&hilit=email+notification#p8842175
And if you demand a feature not covered by the pre-existing mods, there
is an active community that could program it. The bottom line is you
would not feel the difference using Gmail.
Obviously all of this takes a bit more work than an out-of-the-box
solution like Yahoo, but a forum is way more efficient in keeping a
shared knowledge base. Just think about all the valuable posts that are
uncategorized and practically unsearchable in AB Yahoo and compare it
to, say, the Tradestation forums.
--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxps.com,
Randy Harmelink <rharmelink@...> wrote:
>
> A digest would be unacceptable to me. I can't figure out why
anyone would
> use them in the first place, unless they have an inferior email
client.
> They make things WAY too hard to read. I currently get digests
from several
> vBulletin boards because their RSS feeds only showed the latest
message in a
> topic instead of all new messages. Neither method even comes close
to my
> usage of Yahoo boards.
>
> The whole advantage of Yahoo is that each message comes directly
to me as an
> email. My email client (GMail) can file them and group them into
> conversations as they come in. That's especially important to me
because I
> currently follow well over 100 Yahoo groups. It also allows me to
either
> reply directly or to go the Yahoo group and reply there.
>
> On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 8:02 PM, lucianomt <lucianomt@x..>
wrote:
>
> > I agree that receiving new posts and threads is important,
but with a bit
> > of tweaking it can be done. This is just one of many mods
that accomplish
> > this:
> >
>
> > http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=187868
> >
> > Same for RSS.
>