[Zope] pipedream : fork a dtml-method within zope ?

[Anthony Baxter]

>>> chas wrote
> Consider a discussion forum product where a dozen people
> have already participated in a particular thread.  These
> people, when posting their messages, checked a box which 
> said "email me when somebody else responds/adds to this 
> thread".  (Yes, this is nicked from Cold Fusion Forums :-)
> 
> Now, a 13th person adds his 2 cents to the thread and posts
> a response. We want to now send a mail to each of the first
> 12 participants. 
> 
> No problem so far, except mailing all 12 people is going to
> take quite a bit of time, and contributor #13 is going to 
> get impatient waiting whilst this is happening. Then imagine
> a discussion thread with dozens of participants/posts. 

How about something like 'write the message and the recipients to
a database table, then have something poll that table.'

Or have a local mailer set up to receive messages for delivery
immediately, and point Zope at that - actually formatting up
the message for delivery shouldn't take that long (particularly
if it's the same message - you format it once, send it 12 times.)

Anthony
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