Send by e-mail Links — from Posts

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  rsathya · Member · Sep 27, 2006 at 11:24 pm

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  I was going thru one of my friends blog and saw a cute feature. Not that u cannot live without , but a good to have feature.
  For a sample screen shot

  Can we have a quick link from each post to have the post forwarded by E-Mail. Of course it can be done manually, but would it not be good to have a quick access to it from the post. May be when a friend is reading my post, he could use this feature to have the (interesting !!!) post forwarded by e-mail.

  I think all Blogger (Blogspot) Blogs have this.

  May be this is theame dependent (i think this could be done with a change to CSS). Or do we have it already !!!

  If not is there a reason why we(wordpress) should not be having this.
  Any thoughts or suggestions !!!

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  drmike · Member · Sep 27, 2006 at 11:36 pm

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  It leads to abuse by spammers.

  You are free to submit a request via feedback on your dashboard though.

  Good luck,
  -drmike

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  rsathya · Member · Sep 27, 2006 at 11:44 pm

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  Tx for the reply Mike. I was not sure how Spammers would use it (but then I am not aware of all the tricks they have)

  If it is a security concern or a spam issue , I am ready to forgo the feature.

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  drmike · Member · Sep 27, 2006 at 11:49 pm

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  Place a spam post in a blog and then use this feature to send out the emails to all the email addresses that they can.

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  osweatman · Member · Apr 29, 2007 at 9:37 pm

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  hi dr. mike – has there been any progress on this issue? e.g. is there a way to offer an “email this post” link at the bottom of posts or is that still problematic from a spam standpoint? thanks

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  timethief · Member · Apr 29, 2007 at 10:17 pm

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  @ osweatman
  drmike has answered the question above. Spam is problematic. There have been no “updates” and it’s not likely that this will be introduced.

  Meanwhile this is the existing alternative http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/10/11/how-can-i-offer-email-updates/

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  osweatman · Member · Apr 29, 2007 at 10:21 pm

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  yes, i’m familiar with the feed and i think i offer that. but i’m curious about offering an email link after each post to facilitate viral forwarding if someone reads a good post and wants to pass it along to friends. thanks

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  timethief · Member · Apr 29, 2007 at 10:26 pm

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  You can use “Add This” – a social bookmark button

  <a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php" title="Bookmark using any bookmark manager!" target="_blank"><img src="http://s3.addthis.com/button1-bm.gif" width="125" height="16" border="0" alt="AddThis Social Bookmark Button" /></a>

  Regarding rss feed subscription alternatives “Add This” has another button you can find here http://www.addthis.com/

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  osweatman · Member · Apr 30, 2007 at 2:04 am

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  ok, thank you

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  timethief · Member · Apr 30, 2007 at 2:39 am

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  No problem. :)