One great new feature to Community Credit that went live just this morning is the Newsgroup Auto Submitter. If you are active in Newsgroups, you will really appreciate this. Here is how it works.....
How Does it Work?
If you post alot on newsgroups, it can be a bit taxing to submit every single newsgroup entry. As a result, folks that are heavy newsgroup users typically do not submit everything that they do. Well, that is about to change. Now, you simply post as you normally would. Loyal Community Credit Contributor, Greg Young, created the application that reads through newsgroups. It took him about an hour to write the whole thing since he is one of the real hardcore developers out there. Thanks Greg! I took his app and modified it to automatically give credit to anybody who has signed up for this cool new program. It is built on /n software's NNTP component and I found it to be impressively simple to implement.
How Do I Get Credit?
Simply contact me and let me know what Newsgroups you are active in and what your email alias is on those newsgroups. Then the points just start rolling in. You post on the newsgroups and a few minutes later, you get credit for your posts in Community Credit.
I am totally interested, how do I get started?
Simply drop me an email at admin@community-credit.com. We require that you do contact us so that we can set you up, rather than spamming the entire newsgroup world with a bunch of emails telling them about the program. Actually, I don't consider an invite email about this great program to be spam, but I think that everybody but me would. The funny thing is that most people who send spam out about something important to them, don't consider it to be spam. If you look through the newsgroups, you will notice that most of the email aliases are something of the form.... Bob@DONTSENDMESPAM.com or something of that nature. Seems like a not so subtle hint, IMHOl
Well, that is it, I hope to hear from some of you Newsgroup Hounds soon....