Notification is inimately tied to subscription or registration of
some kind. There must be a list of people who have been identified
as being interested in receiving notifications. If the list is simply
the list of members, you should probably tell people when they become
a member that they will be notified about things such as creation of
new forums.
Nagarajan C. writes:
> We decided that we would write a script that will scan the "Subject" of
> the mail for "Subscribe" and "Unsubscribe" commands applied on the forum
> mentioned in Newsgroup header entry. That is, giving atleast Forum Level
> Subscription facility for email-only users.
This is a good idea. There is already some support for this in
mail-incoming.pl. Build on that work, if you can.
This is starting along the path to what Majordomo and other mailing list
managers already do. One way for HyperNews to go is to make use of
Majordomo for what it does well, especially the new perl 5 based system.
> In addition to this we thought we will just inform the members about the
> creation of New Base Articles. They can use the above said script to
> subscribe if they wish.
This is a good idea, but as I said, there is an implicit subscription
if you notify all the members. Perhaps one way to think about this is
that the group of all members corresponds to a forum where the members
are all subscribers of the forum. You might find more about this idea
written elsewhere.
Let me know how much time you are willing to put into this. I can
help along the way.
dan
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Notifying Requires Subscribing. 
Just Notifying *NOT* Subscribing...
(Nagarajan C)
