[Theforum] New feature suggestions
Martin
martin at members.evolt.org
Sat Nov 10 16:01:47 CST 2001
Madhu Menon wrote on 10/11/01 10:55 pm
>>As a member-by-member optin? Sure.
>
>Simply an announcement list, really. Don't need to tie it into the
>membership database.
Yeah, that's fine. "Not a simple announcement to thelist" was
what I was thinking of.
>That way, even non-members can simply enter their
>email address and get notified when a new article is posted.
And of course a nice place to put a footer promoting
the benefits of membership.
>And we all know that making people enter a long list of details just to
>sign up for a newsletter/announcement list is not usable at all ;)
Of course. But all we require for membership is name &
email, which it only 1 bit of data extra (name) than for a simple
list signup.
>>We did try that with AnswerThis a few months back - it didn't
>>get the response we'd hoped for, so we pulled it.
>
>I remember it vaguely. Let me investigate this a bit and see what was the
>stumbling block. Your opinion is welcome too, of course. Is it still there
>on the site?
No - it got pulled because we got no response.
Cheers
Martin
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