automated email notifications

I'm not sure if I'm just missing where to turn this on or if it isn't there, but presuming I haven't missed it, I have a suggestion for enhancing perlmonk.

Would it be possible for perlmonk to enable & manage various types of email "subscriptions", along the lines of...:

On my preferences page:

( ) "Subscribe me to any discussion I've posted a 'base note' on.
( ) "Subscribe me to any discussion I've posted in (includes 'base notes' and responses).
( ) "Send me an email when I have new, unread personal messages".
[ ] Others?

Mail frequency:
( ) None.
( ) a. on first new unread personal
( ) b. on first new note in any subscribed thread
( ) c. on first new note in each subscribed thread
( ) a + b
( ) a + c

On page displaying a thread one could have the option to subscribe or unsubscribe to current thread.

Emails would look like:

Subject: Reply to Post "Solving differential equations in Perl"
Dear <perl-monk-id> (PMI)

<PMI> has just responded to a thread entitled "..." that you have subs
+cribed to on perlmonks.  The thread is located at <http addr>.

Here is the message that was posted:
**************
Have you tried "use Calculus::diffEQ"?
**************

There may be other responses on this thread, but you will not receive 
+any more notifications until you have visited perlmonks.

Thanks,
<perl-monk-monitor>
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This provides efficient, "interrupt driven i/o" vs. the [deprecated] "polling" method that seems to be the only options currently available.

Has this topic been raised a "discussion flag" before? :-)

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Re: automated email notifications by GrandFather (Saint) on Jan 30, 2007 at 01:02 UTC
It has been raised before. A Super Search on 'email noti' turns up Email notifications again, Email Notification and Email notifications as pertinent hits (among a few others). Bottom line is, no-one has felt sufficiently motivated to write the code. DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel	[reply]
Re: automated email notifications by f00li5h (Chaplain) on Feb 01, 2007 at 03:42 UTC
You get notified in the Chatterbox, so perhaps you can use one of the Other CB Clients to read the Private Messages that notify you of replies that you're sent... or just refresh your browser a bundle of times... `@_=qw; ask f00li5h to appear and remain for a moment of pretend better than a lifetime;;s;;@_[map hex,split'',B204316D8C2A4516DE];;y/05/os/&print;`	[reply] [d/l]


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