FAQ / Getting Started IPVM Discussions

Is there progress is being able to get email alerts when new discussion topics are created? Thanks.

How to search the discussions, I posted a new discussion and I want to follow it, since one hour I'm not able to find my post.

Thanks

Sayed Omar

Sayed, do you recall the name or topic of your discussion? I can't find it. Our site search (at the top right corner of every page) searches discussions (as well as all IPVM articles).

In the near future, we will add a discussions only search option.

Also, I think it's worthwhile to display a list of all discussions one has started on the member's page so that each person can better track their topics. I'll add that to the list.

My personal preferance is links in discussions open new tabs instead of taking the discussion tab to the linked page. Others of course may weigh in.

Seems often IPVM Discussion related emails are ending up in my SPAM folder. I tell my email client to permit emails from the domain, but it seems it's looking at the originating domain which is some vaiation of ***.***.mandrillapp.com. So if you, for instance, you tell your program to allow the domain in one of the emails, it will whitelist that domain next time, but a new of variation of the domain will be caught by the filter. I'll try allowing wild cars such as @*.*.mandrillapp.com in the whitelist, but not sure how easy this would be to resolve on the IPVM side.

It sounds like it's a problem at Mandrillapp (which as I understand is a device of MailChimp). If they don't police their clients and let a bunch of spammers (I mean the Viagra type) use their service, everyone suffers.

What they should do is when they send IPVM emails, they should be sent indicating the client name in the DNS name, like *@ipvm.mandrillapp.com. instead of some random @<host name>.mandillapp.com. That might help on the SPAM filters, though if a lot of SPAM is coming from the mail servers IP address, the IP address might get black listed regardless of what the DNS name is.

Hi my name is gary i work for a great and small intagrator in california and i need more training on ip camera"s

Sharing limited excerpts of IPVM content is allowed under the 'fair use' doctrine.

John, just curious, considering that IPVM's sharing is limited to excerpts only to the degree allowed by law, what is the intention behind the prominently displayed entreatment "<Member Name> E-mail this to:". ?

1. To send to one's alternate email for later reading or as a form of bookmarking

2. To send to other members as a way to alert them to an article's publication

3. For occasional distribution to qualified non-member associates as a teaser

4. For use only if article is declared to be sharable, i.e. not Pro

5. Vestigal remains of a previous incarnation of the site when content was less restricted and talk was cheap

6. Doesn't email, actually redirects to U.S. Library of Congess, Office of Copyright Enforcement Division :)

Thanks

Does anyone have any experiance using a RainX type product to reduce camera's from fogging up on the exterior?

This really is the best site around for discussions. Bullseye John! Hate them ones where everbody automatically includes everybody elses quotes, til you cant make hide nor hair out of it!

if there were two improvements i could offer it would be:

Make the mail notification say who the post is a reply to. Sometimes on short replies its like 'you talkin to me?'

make the articles start to show up on as a discussion as soon as somebody comments on them.

the home page comment list is delayed and doesnt say who posted last.