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By codemonkey uk , Section Wishlist [] Posted on Wed Feb 21, 2001 at 12:00:00 PM PST

I think that the email digest is great, especially for your not-so connected dialup users. In this article I pressent an idea for improving the way email users can access a scoop site.

The age old "connect, dowload, disconnect, read, reply, connect, upload, disconnect" email routine works well. With the email digest if you decide you want to read some of the articles in detail, you have to collect all the links, and download them in seperate browser windows, then disconnect, and read them. With IE 4, and an old PC, this is slow and crashes intermitently, especially on stories with big discissions, so it got me thinking, what if scoop sites ran email auto responder daemons, that would fwd stories to an email address on request? The digest could then include both http: and mailto: HREFS to the story on the site, so a user could visit the site, or get stories in their inbox to read offline.
There are lots of ways that this email auto responder idea can be expanded, voting on polls, story queue moderation, commenting, but once the initial system is set up, that kind of stuff wouldn't be too hard.
Thad
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email interface | 7 comments (6 topical, 0 hidden)

Well.. (3.00 / 1) (#2)
by Mystic on Wed Feb 21, 2001 at 07:43:44 AM PST

People have been suggesting an email interface for scoop for some time. The only reason why I have not worked on it is because I am absolutely clueless about system email stuffs. Since this kind of feature will need a good understanding of working of sendmail(?), I am a bit uncertain whether to poke my nose into it and get myself obsessed.

really? by codemonkey uk, 02/21/2001 08:35:04 AM PST (none / 0)
its pretty simple really by kellan, 02/22/2001 08:43:34 PM PST (4.00 / 1)

Email whatnot (4.00 / 1) (#4)
by rusty on Wed Feb 21, 2001 at 07:29:33 PM PST

Actually, you're right, receiving and parsing email stuff shouldn't be all that hard. The main issues are of user verification, and command syntax. Basically, I'm thinking, it would go something like: you send an email to [sid]@kuro5hin.org with a format defining what you want to do. So, like: <BLOCKQOUTE> Subject: reply [cid] username@password
Message:
This is an email reply to a k5 comment... Would that work? Sending uname/pass in cleartext over email is not very secure, but using gpg/pgp might be a PiTA. I don't know. The other thing is, the email user would need to remember the format and commands. Perhaps each outbound email could include a little quick-reference of what commands will do what.

I've always thought an email interface would be really cool, myself. I probably won't get to work on it for a while, if ever, but if anyone else wants to hack on it, that would be cool.

syntax, passwords by codemonkey uk, 02/22/2001 05:17:07 AM PST (5.00 / 1)

advance studies portion (none / 0) (#7)
by Deanajohnson on Fri May 04, 2018 at 06:34:07 AM PST

This is the development that I successfully did and currently following with its advance studies portion. It is through an expert teacher at Essay Writing Service. And the most key benefit of using email digest is that we can access our mail even we not connected to internet or offline.

email interface | 7 comments (6 topical, 0 hidden)

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