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quote:Originally posted by JSample
Jeff:
The web forums do offer the ability for you to receive new postings in your email at either the forum or topic level trough the subscriptions feature. Subscriptions on this site not only alert you to new postings but also include the actual post message and have a link that you can click to take you directly to the topic for replying.
We do not however plan on allowing reply directly from email since they are very hard to control people spamming the lists or spoofing other memberâs identities. If members must come to the site in order to reply, we have far greater control in verifying identity and blocking people who violate the terms of service.
Thank you for joining the P2P forums and I hope you enjoy you visits here.
Thank you,
James Sample
Director, IS-Infrastructure
Wiley Publishing, Inc.
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Pity.
Email discussion lists offer much more convenience than a web interface. Ding, I got mail, I read it, I reply if I want to or can, then continue on about my business. I can also easily follow discussion threads merely by watching the email go by.
Stopping to go to a web page, no matter how easy you try to make it is just more intrusive.
You are making a mistake by not continuing the email lists; your concern over SPAM is misguided. If you do a litle research into the history of the P2P lists, I'm sure you will find that neither SPAM nor user spoofing was ever an issue. In fact, as I recall, the biggest SPAM problem we ever had was when some idiotic marketeer at WROX had a bright idea and decided to clutter up the lists with adverts for WROX services...
Jeff Mason
Custom Apps, Inc.
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