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#278794 - 10/23/04 11:17 PM
Re: Permissions
[Re: barbiro]
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I type Like navaho
Registered: 11/29/01
Posts: 11330
Loc: Charlotte, NC
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[]ChAoS said:<br /> Michael:<br /><br />Many forums packages have it built-in. When someone replies to the post, the forum checks to see if anyone needs to be notified of it, and sends out the email if necessary, for instance.<br /><br />[/]<br /><br />This can be mega high load though - what your host describes is notification of favorites - Threads does this, when a post is made, it emails everyone who had the post tagged as their favorites and had the email preference enabled.<br /><br />What you need is the cron job which runs nightly, finds ALL the posts made that day, in a particular forum, and emails it to people that have subscribed to that particular forum.<br /><br />I'm in shock by your webhost's statement. If they honestly say nobody has ever asked for a cron job, then you seriously should find a new webhost. They haven't been in the business long, or don't know what they are doing. Cron jobs are a fundamental building block of web hosting. <img src="http://www.ubbdev.com/forum/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> They've been around forever.<br /><br />Remember I say this not just as a webhost, but also a consultant who has hundreds of clients, all with different servers and webhosts. I've seen a pretty good cross section of web hosts. <img src="http://www.ubbdev.com/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /><br /><br />A good webhost will offer a decent control panel (like CPanel) where you can create and schedule these jobs automatically. <img src="http://www.ubbdev.com/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
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