Email notification of site updates.

[Dumb_guy]

There use to be a service out there that would allow visitors to be notified (if they wished) when a website they were visiting was updated. They would shoot the surfer an email letting them know the site was updated.

Can this be achieved on the server side using code?

[Oaf357]

I'm sure there is a PHP script available for that but a mailing list would accomplish the same task.

[Dumb_guy]

How do you mean? Hence, I am Dumb_guy.

[Oaf357]

You could create a mailing list for people that want to know when your site is updated.

Or there might be a more automated process available from a PHP script (if you don't know what PHP is, learn it at [php.net...] ).

[Mardi_Gras]

At least one service is still available - changedetection.com - it is used by Slipstick, among others. Don't know about coding your own.

[Dumb_guy]

Mardi_Gras:

Thanks for the info. Exactly what I was looking for.

[bruhaha]

Another such (free) service you may try is
"Watch that Page"
[watchthatpage.com ]