Yes, this is something we want to do but there are a lot of anti-spam considerations. Generally I prefer to launch something and THEN see how spammers mess with it, but I don't want to get delicious's outgoing email on any blacklists and want to be extra careful on this one.
Joshua > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of paullll.irish > Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2007 7:58 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [ydn-delicious] Re: for: private RSS feed > > Hi Joshua, > > Sometimes when I find a link I enjoy, I'll bookmark it and > "for:" it to > a number of people. Of course there are bound to be people I want to > share it with but do not currently have a del.icio.us > account. I'd love > to also tag to their email: " for:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > When I do that it would send out an email to that address > with the link. > (and whatever other information needs to be included) > > In addition to providing some great functionality to your > userbase, it's > also a great way to turn your users into evangelists and spread the > value of del.icio.us to their friends. > Friend: "Hey, i noticed you sent me a link yesterday using something > called delicious? what's that all about?" > > I'm posting on this thread because I tried to duplicate this > functionality by just bookmarking like that.. Then I was > going to set up > something to watch the rss feed on that for: page and shoot > off emails. > That's when I saw there is no private rss feed for the for: tags. :( > I'll take either feature, but I definitely think the former would be > warmly welcomed by all del.icio.us users. > Thanks! > > -Paul Irish > http://del.icio.us/paul.irish > > > --- In [email protected], "Joshua Schachter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > This indicates a hole in our api and/or thinking and will > try to come > up > > with a reasonable short-term solution. > > > > Long-term I think this speaks to the fact that the for: store is > > separate and probably shouldn't be. They should be "your" bookmarks, > > just not created by you, and perhaps not visible in the > default view. > I > > like the idea of other kinds of bookmarks, including for'd and > retired. > > Perhaps watched, commented on, voted on, so on and so forth. > > > > Joshua > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [email protected] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Justin R. Miller > > > Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 11:48 AM > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: Re: [ydn-delicious] for: private RSS feed > > > > > > On Apr 27, 2007, at 10:55 AM, Joshua Schachter wrote: > > > > > > > There isn't any way to generate the keys programmatically. It's > > > > something we could consider adding to the API, but you can > > > already get > > > > to private items via the API... > > > > > > Thanks. I'm not sure I understand, though -- I'm talking about > > > getting the list of links that are being sent to you by > others with > > > for: tags. It's available as an RSS feed, but that private key is > > > needed and requires some copying and pasting out of the > web page to > > > use it. > > > > > > -- > > > Justin R. Miller > > > Code Sorcery Workshop > > > http://codesorcery.net > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
