Dotable business announcement

[Nathan]

Originally Posted by Aussie Bob

Nathan,

An email was sent to all Dotable clients, pointing to the above announcement. It does appear that some folks did not receive the email that was sent. Yes, currencies worldwide and volatile at the moment.

Your account on Enterprise server was consolidated to the Shadow server. This was also emailed to all clients on Enterprise server and posted in the Enterprise server forum too.

Didn't get that email either, sorry.

Volatility aside, when paying in one currency the volatility is not an issue until you are forced to pay in another. I joined because I could pay in Aussie dollars. An Aussie dollar is worth an exactly $1AU, regardless of where the international markets are moving. Being forced to pay in another currency makes this far less appealing. If I wanted to pay in US dollars there are thousands of other hosts out there.

Does subscribing to the forum send an email notice or does it just tell you that there is a new unspecified post in the forum?

[SniffTheGlove]

Originally Posted by SniffTheGlove

Nathan,

It would be wise to subscribe to the necessary forums. When I joined up 2 years ago part of the welcome email highly suggested to subscribe to the server fourm (in my case Pluto) for announcements etc. And to this day I am still subscribed and still get all the news etc.

Sorry, meant to say that I am still subscribed to the server forums for my server which was Pluto but is now shadow.

Nathan, You get an email like this
Subject: Subscribed Forum Notification (Shadow Server Announcements)
-----------------------------------------
Hello SniffTheGlove,

You are currently subscribed to the forum Shadow Server Announcements, and a new thread has just been posted.

Thread Title:
[Resolved] Exim Maintenance

View Thread:
http://dotable.com/shadow-server-ann...post15378.html

View Forum:
http://dotable.com/shadow-server-announcements/
------------------------------------------------------

[jimbob]

Originally Posted by Nathan

Does subscribing to the forum send an email notice or does it just tell you that there is a new unspecified post in the forum?

It depends on how you subscribe. I recommend clicking the "thread tools->subscribe" link for each forum you want to monitor. When you do so, you will be given the choice to choose instant email, or daily or weekly digest.

[RuKiwi]

To all above. Guys! Somehow we do need a software at dotable which will send info about special events(change of ownership, etc) to our INBOX, not to junkbox as any bboard software does. Relying on bboard(vBulletin) script is just not ON. Not good enough, Dotable, your clients just simply do not get the stuff you may trying to expose.! Modernbill was Ok?

[Aussie Bob]

Whether an email that is sent from the forum goes to your Inbox or to your Junk mail or Spam folder, is out of our control. All Dotable clients were emailed of the above change of ownership announcement, pointing to this thread for discussion. You'd be amazed at how many of those emails didn't get received, being sent from the new billing system.

[Dotable Nick]

Originally Posted by RuKiwi

To all above. Guys! Somehow we do need a software at dotable which will send info about special events(change of ownership, etc) to our INBOX, not to junkbox as any bboard software does. Relying on bboard(vBulletin) script is just not ON. Not good enough, Dotable, your clients just simply do not get the stuff you may trying to expose.! Modernbill was Ok?

I will be using Mailchimp for all future mass mailouts actually, so this should fix this issue.

[agua]

I don't think that email is the right way to go - you'll probably get exactly the same spam problems.

Most email clients have support for RSS feeds - why not create a feed to the important forums - then people can add them to their emails clients/feed readers with no risk of any spam.

Just my A$0.02 (USD $0.013)

[Dotable Nick]

Originally Posted by agua

I don't think that email is the right way to go - you'll probably get exactly the same spam problems.

Most email clients have support for RSS feeds - why not create a feed to the important forums - then people can add them to their emails clients/feed readers with no risk of any spam.

Just my A$0.02 (USD $0.013)

MailChimp actually does very well in this dept - Although I do think I can come up with something to do an RSS Feed + Email using Mailchimp's RSS Feature

Be sure everyone gets every email.

[agua]

Problem sorted - good work Nick

[Empire]

Sounds good - let us know the RSS feed created, so we can hook up to it.