Comments on: Mailing Lists For Ning http://www.symphonious.net/2008/01/15/mailing-lists-for-ning/ Living in a state of accord. Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:52:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Adrian Sutton http://www.symphonious.net/2008/01/15/mailing-lists-for-ning/#comment-142249 Adrian Sutton Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:11:27 +0000 https://www.symphonious.net/2008/01/15/mailing-lists-for-ning/#comment-142249 Email notifications of forum posts don't work well, firstly because people tend to just sign up for notifications of responses to their particular problem and secondly because it still requires you to come back to the website to reply (and often to view the entire post). That just discourages people from replying to other posts. Email notifications of forum posts don’t work well, firstly because people tend to just sign up for notifications of responses to their particular problem and secondly because it still requires you to come back to the website to reply (and often to view the entire post). That just discourages people from replying to other posts.

]]> By: Andrew http://www.symphonious.net/2008/01/15/mailing-lists-for-ning/#comment-142240 Andrew Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:46:21 +0000 https://www.symphonious.net/2008/01/15/mailing-lists-for-ning/#comment-142240 I know that it is possible to "Start Monitoring for New Discussions" on Ning's forums (and a forum associated with a group). Not ideal but similar to what you are thinking about... Another idea might be to have a PHP script on the server that runs regularly and uses their RSS to send out a daily summary. May be there are some keen developers such as http://www.ningmods.com/ who could help integrate something. I know that it is possible to “Start Monitoring for New Discussions” on Ning’s forums (and a forum associated with a group). Not ideal but similar to what you are thinking about…

Another idea might be to have a PHP script on the server that runs regularly and uses their RSS to send out a daily summary.

May be there are some keen developers such as http://www.ningmods.com/ who could help integrate something.

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