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1 | Kevin

November 21st, 2003 at 7:32 am

If you know, how does this version address blog spam, if at all?

2 | Jennifer

November 21st, 2003 at 8:12 am

It doesn't address it directly, but it will work *with* mt-blacklist (unlike the php version)…

So, in short, comments get run through mt-blacklist, and mt's IP ban list, BEFORE any comment notifications get sent out. So now, your "subscribees" won't get spamed with comment spam that's not even showing up on your site.

Additionally – if for some reason either by mistake or maliciously – someone continually subscribes your email address to comments of a particular blog – when you get the comment notification – you have the option to unsubscribe from just that post **OR** (this is the new part) to block all comment notifications from that blog. So if you do the block all – regardless of whether or not the person keeps subscribing you – you will not get the emails (unless you contact the blog owner and ask them to remove the block). This was an important addition considering recent "Spam" legislation that is so broad that can be translated to read that almost any email can be considered spam.

3 | Mariann

November 21st, 2003 at 4:21 pm

Now here's a silly question that probably should be directed to Chad — is it possible to set up this subscription without the user knowing? This is not for my personal blog, but rather for a MT powered course blog that my students would use. I want the software to remind them when someone adds a comment to a post so they will go back and continue the discussion or answer a question.

Ethical issues aside, can this happen?

4 | Jennifer

November 21st, 2003 at 8:13 pm

You could subscribe people to the post – without their knowing (which is why we put in the ability to "opt-out" of just the post – or any notifications from the blog entirely). This can be accomplished on the post itself with a simple form – or through your "mt-notifier" page…

5 | Christine

November 25th, 2003 at 1:45 am

I can't wait to test it out! Thanks for all of the hard work you both put in to this!

6 | patricia

November 26th, 2003 at 9:24 am

I installed it last night and it seems to be working just fine. Very cool. Thanks!

7 | jayseae

December 13th, 2003 at 6:25 pm

For those of you keeping your eyes out for it, MT-Notifier now supports the importing of comments from the prior implemention of the ScriptyGoddess Subscribe to Comments. Version 1.2 (dated 12/12/2003) required.

8 | Tek

December 15th, 2003 at 11:46 pm

Thank you!!!

(and I got it to work the first time *grin*)

9 | Mama Write

November 21st, 2003 at 4:40 pm

MT Notifier
Via Scripty Goddess, I found a new plugin called MT Notifier. It's basically a subscription that lets one follow-up on subsequent comments in a blog post. I like this a great deal — not for here, but for my students….

10 | Bloggie Broad

November 23rd, 2003 at 5:57 pm

Comment Subscription Info
Jenn mentioned that comment subscriptions do not work with a few 'issues' in tandem with MT-Blacklist, so I removed Blacklist from Bloggie Broad today. (At…

11 | em-brof

November 25th, 2003 at 2:34 am

Subscription
I have been enjoying the previous version of this script that was running on Erik's site. There is a new…

12 | Big Pink Cookie

November 25th, 2003 at 9:13 pm

Getting Scripty!
I wish I had the time to implement all of the things I want to do on this blog, but…

13 | The Chronicle of Anthony K. Valley

November 27th, 2003 at 3:32 am

MT-Notifier Subscribe to Comments
Jennifer at Scriptygoddess points the way to a cgi version of the Movable Type subscribe to comments feature that was originally developed in PHP ( Download MT-Notifier at Chad Everett's weblog, Don't Back Down). Read Scriptygoddess, Subscr…

14 | The Chronicle of Anthony K. Valley

November 27th, 2003 at 3:34 am

MT-Notifier Subscribe to Comments
Jennifer at Scriptygoddess points the way to a cgi version of the Movable Type subscribe to comments feature that was originally developed in PHP ( Download MT-Notifier at Chad Everett's weblog, Don't Back Down). Read Scriptygoddess, Subscr…

15 | Ks Weblog

December 1st, 2003 at 9:29 pm

New Comment Subscription Plugin for MT
Always something good from scriptygoddess Chad has been busily coding away and developed a cgi version of the subscribe to comments feature (originally developed in PHP). His is called "notifier". I plan on installing it here soon – but I…

16 | www.ofhills.com

December 8th, 2003 at 6:11 am

EZ Subscribe To Comments
The script below is a new way to allow readers to subscribe to yor comment posts. The original idea was…

17 | The Trommetter Times

December 18th, 2003 at 3:31 pm

Comment Notification
MT-Notifier Plugin for Movable Type A long time ago, I implemented a subscribe to comment feature in PHP. It didn't…

18 | tresman

June 26th, 2004 at 9:58 pm

Let me just please go and try this. Cause now the realy thing is… and unsuscribe!?

19 | Tom

June 26th, 2004 at 10:02 pm

well, you need a coment now on this old blog entry I think

20 | poe

July 18th, 2004 at 2:29 pm

Too bad Chad doesn't make old versions of MT-Notifier available!
I can't find anywhere on his site to download old versions.
Notifier 2.0 is only compatible with spam-friendly MT 3.0 (I use 2.66).

21 | Jennifer

July 18th, 2004 at 3:49 pm

I just went there and saw the link to download the 2.6 friendly version… Scroll down to the second "warning" that says this:
Warning: MT-Notifier version 2.0.1 is not compatible with versions of Movable Type prior to 3.0D. If you want to use MT-Notifier with a version prior to 3.0D, use 1.4.1 instead.