RSS questions

[jsp1001]

I'm just getting to know the joys of RSS feeds. It's good to have the titles and initial text of new threads on my Google home page, but the followup postings, I noticed, are not available unless you actually go the the kotr site. This seems to be normal RSS behavior: scan through hundreds of new postings, and zero in on only a few you wish to follow. So in effect, a "thread selection tool."
But with a community as small and interesting as KOTR, I find that I read every single post, and I wish I could be notified of each followup post, not just new posts.
Is this possible with RSS? If so, how do we do it? I guess Eric would need to do some RSS xml stuff.
On the other hand, some web hosts do not want all the content to be available through a third party . . . there has to be a reason to click to the actual KOTR page . . . but then again, we need to go there anyway to be able to post stuff . . . and KOTR is not a for-profit site. . . ..
Sorry for the length of this post. I guess what I really want is a kind of email list-server group, not used much anymore, in which every time someone posted you got an email. . . . but all this without the email clutter. .. .am I making sense?
Thanks for reading.

[Eric]

Hi,

Here is the link setting up a regular RSS feed:
http://www.koreaontherocks.com/forums/faq.php?s=&do=search&q=rss&match=all&titlesonly=0

I don't think it's currently possible to do what you want though I understand the need. I'll keep my eyes open and see if this is possible. I want to do a big upgrade to KOTR sometime this summer so maybe after then we'll have that functionality.

But you can subscribe to all of the forums that you want to receive notices about.

So, say you want to be notified of all new posts in the Upcoming Trips forum. Go here: http://www.koreaontherocks.com/forums/f1-upcoming-trips.html
Click 'Forum Tools'
Click 'Subscribe to this forum'

Then you'll receive an email update whenever there is a new post.

You'll want to go to your options page and tell the system when you want to be notified:
http://www.koreaontherocks.com/forums/profile.php?do=editoptions

Let me know if this helps you out or not.

Also, to eliminate email clutter, try gmail. you can set up some pretty powerful features that keeps your inbox clean and empty without deleting a single message!

eric

[jsp1001]

Hey, thanks. Short of a "beefed up" RSS, I guess email notifications is what I want. And yes, I do use gmail (actually, using the new ig desktop with all the cool little gadgets is what got me to post this topic in the first place! On my igoogle desktop, I have email, seoul weather, google docs, google calendar, and of course, KOTR (I use this: www.koreaontherocks.com/forums/external.php?type=rss2).

Thanks again, and keep up the good work!

[Eric]

No worries!