Re: [Phpwiki-talk] email notification

[Steve W. <sw...@wc...>]

On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Jeff Dairiki wrote:

> >[notify:email@address]
> 
> Very clever!  The main problem I see is that some people may object
> to having their email address publicly available for spamming.
> 
> Once we add user tracking, that won't be a problem, since the 
> user e-mail address can be stored (privately) along with his
> password and whatever other personal information.  Then there's
> just [notify:JohnDoe] on the page.
> 

However the problem of others adding email addresses remains. JohnDoe
might offend a script kiddie and suddenly he gets all the pages when they
update.

Anyway, this has been asked for before and I'll add it to the task list
now.

~swain

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