From: Adam S. <ad...@pe...> - 2001-11-20 18:55:23
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> RFC: EmailNotification Syntax and Features this is great, thanks for publishing this. > NotifyAboutChanges: > > * JoeEdelman > * TheHumanResourcesDepartment > * ji...@mi... i would vote to remove the email option, it makes it too easy for anyone to sign up anyone to get spammed on change notification. having all notifications routed to a wiki page (and thus to an email) also provides a single point of maintenance for end users (need to change your email you just have to do it in one place). if you remove the email meta-data (or maybe change it to a keyword like "disabled") it would also provide an easy way to temporarily unsubscribe. having a wiki page in order to get email notifications doesn't seem too onerous. some form of ack on the addition of an email to a page would be useful to avoid people signing other people up (you add email meta data and then to have it activated you have to respond to an email or something similar). > should do what you expect if the page "TheHumanResourcesDepartment" > contains somewhere: > > GroupConsistsOf: > > * AlexHamilton > * TomJefferson > * ge...@ho... it would be nice if the notion of groups could be generalized so it could be leveraged for authentication purposes. i can't comment if this meets that criteria or not. adam. |