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hello folks,
this is just a followup to a question that had come up on Wednesday about the
relationship between a blog and email. it IS possible to have email notification
go out when a blog is updated, and you can request a listserve address from IT
so that people can subscribe/unsubscribe to that notification address as they
want.
since Joshua
Landis has become our blog demo, here's an example of how he has done that now
with his blog; he just requested that a listserve be created for this purpose
and now there are 3 subscription options along the top of the right-hand column,
one of which is email notification.
the way
Blogger.com email notification works is that email is sent when there is a NEW
post only - not when there is editing done on a post, and not when there are
comments.
unless
people object (?), I'm going to set the [log in to unmask] as the
notification address for the OU Online blog. we can change that if people feel
it is not appropriate, but since there is not much posting on that blog anyway,
I don't think it will be a problem. and it might give people a sense of the
advantages/disadvantages of email messages as opposed to messages on webpages.
if people do
think this is a problem, I'll request a separate listserve address for this
purpose - although I'm hoping this will work out okay.
thanks
everybody - and have a nice weekend!
Laura