Send by e-mail Links — from Posts
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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 shotCan 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.
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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 -
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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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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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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@ 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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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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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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