Sven Littkowski wrote:
> Here a request: it would be a fine tool to add to the newsgroups the feature
> to be informed by e-mail whenever someone replies to a posted message.
> That, actually, would be a very important and useful support.

I note you are using the POV-Ray web interface to the newsgroups. Please
understand that the groups are not web-based and in fact you are just using
the web interface as a newsreader. Since it is not necessary to provide a
real email address when accessing the groups via a regular newsreader 
program (at <nntp://news.povray.org/>), it is not possible to provide a 
general solution to this.

It is technically feasable to do this for only people who are registered on
the web interface, but it would take more work than you probably expect 
because posts are not necessarily made via that interface and as such we 
would need to add logic to track what is posted to where and who has been 
notified of it.

I agree it would be a nice feature to have (and could certainly use it 
myself) but unfortunately the POV-Team is a bit limited in free time. We 
don't have a dedicated webmaster and therefore implementing your idea would 
take time from developing POV-Ray. I think that most people would prefer 
that we spend our time working on the latter rather than the former ...

If we ever find a suitable qualified webmaster with the dedication needed to 
stay around for a long time (several years) this will be among the list of 
things we will suggest he/she add to the site.

   Thorsten

PS: This message really should not have been posted here since it has 
nothing to do with submitting news. Discussions lik this belong in 
povray.general. I have set followups to that group.

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