Digests

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UCP / Digests

Digests are emails sent to users periodically with a summary of postings made on a the forums.group board for discrete time periods. Digests makes some forum users’ lives easier. They don’t have to explicitly visit the site to see what conversations are going on around there. They just read their digest and if there is some topic that seems of interest, they click on the topic link in their email program and start participating! They can unsubscribe at any time. By default, weekly digests are sent on Sundays. The users can determine the hour they want to receive the digest. Whatever time they choose, they will always get the latest news so they can pick a time that suits their lifestyle.

Digests can be daily, weekly or monthly. Posts older than this will not be sent in a digest. In addition, if you want you can elect not to see posts since you last logged in, if you visited recently. You can even filter out your own posts.

If a user does not want summaries of every post, they can be selective. They can pick the forum or forums that interests them. By default, they will get posts for all forums that they are allowed to access.

Digests can be sent as emails containing HTML or plain text. By default, the user gets the entire post as text, but they can also select to see excerpts of each post or get a list of posts with links to each post.

Please note that each digest is unique, and may have different posts in it compared to another digest going out at the same hour. It may not be an appropriate digest solution for very large boards, very busy boards or for those who want to send bulk emails of all posts for a given time period, as it is designed for flexibility, not efficiency.

We recommend setting up a forum digest to be sent daily to your existing YahooGroup. That way, everyone is kept informed via the YahooGroup of new posts and they can then visit the forum to add replies and new posts.