[Nfb-web] Page change notification?

[Chris Westbrook]

IF you write a program, isn't that kind of defeating hte purpose of rss? 
The whole purpose of rss is to not have to get emails, etc.
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> That would be a cool program to use.  I second what he said.
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>> Hello Arnold and listers,
>>
>> If you write such a program I'd like to use it too.
>>
>> Peter Donahue
>>
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>> From: "Arnold Bailey" <arnoldbail at gmail.com>
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>>
>> Thanks for the responses.
>>
>> What I am trying to accomplish is that when the home pages, for any 
>> reason,
>> emails are created notifying members of the chapter. For example, I have 
>> an
>> RSS feed from the NFB Press room. When a new entry is added, I'd like to
>> notify members. It keeps them aware of the site. I'll have other feeds on
>> there also. I could set up an RSS feed off of my site; but, the chapter
>> members are not heavy web users and find that a scary exercise. I'm
>> subscribed to mdsupport.com which sends me an automatic notification when
>> news is added to the news page. It is really a very nice way of keeping
>> abreast. I could write a server side program, which I might do,
>>
>> Arnold
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <
>> bhawkeslewis at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 15/2/09 11:16, Arnold Bailey wrote:
>>>
>>>> Doesn't anyone know of any software/application or service that sends
>>>> email
>>>> notification when a designated page is changed?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Do you mean a designated page on the web or a designated page on a site
>>> you
>>> maintain?
>>>
>>> Some pages on the web offer Atom or RSS feeds.
>>>
>>> For others, there are services that attempt to emulate an Atom or RSS 
>>> feed
>>> for page changes, for example:
>>>
>>> http://page2rss.com/
>>>
>>> If you're maintaining it, I guess it depends on how your pages are
>>> produced
>>> and who can access them.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
>>>
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