To Chris, yes you can get posts emailed to you. But Blogger.com limits that to ten email addresses. Right now I am using one (for testing purpose), and I've assigned one to another GML member. The reason that person gets it is that he participates in GML from work which employs a very heavy-handed firewall excluding most blogs. So I gave him one of the limited slots. For general membership, I understand the behavioral inertia is to expect to get GML in the form of email. But if more than 10 members want it some will be out of luck.
The "real" way to get instant notification whenever someone posts on GML3 is use Atom feed (our feed is here). You need to run a "feed aggregator". I am not an expert on it but I know aggregators of different types are used by many many people. Actually, perhaps so many people are already using aggregators that demands for email won't reach 10, then it would be a non-issue.
I think for now, we should keep having open discussions about community questions such as these. At the same time we are struggling to put in more Gundam contents during a quiet time (with G00 season 1 just ended), but we need real content (THANKS Richie for the picture!) to retain the old GML membership and hopefully attract new readers and authors. And we also need to set up the ground rules and logistics. Hopefully we can settle the blog logistics soon and get into 100% Gundam contents.
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If someone has an mail server maybe they could create a distribution list with an SMTP address. The address of the distribution list could be added to the list of 10 and then members could be added to the list. IT would require manual administration of the distribution list to add/remove members as needed but it would enable e-mail's to be sent to multiple people.
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