^ Just noticed this and thought I was seeing things thanks to a bit too much celebrating goalie-dad's 81st birthday last night ;)

New Thread notification to Mobile Device
 

Sorry to resurrect this, but I'm wondering if anyone can tell me how to be notified immediately of a new thread being created in the Mileage Run Deals forum? Ideally, I'd love to have something sent via email to my mobile phone. Thanks in advance for your advice.

There's a program called IFTTT that would do this, but I'm not sure if it would violate the Section 4 of FT T&C's:

Could a moderator please clarify if it'd be okay to use an RSS alert tool like IFTTT for a limited, personal use without any "copying (i.e. for publication or any of the other purposes that follow), aggregation, display, distribution, performance, or derivative use"?

I think it'd be a great way to sort deals by origin/destination and ultimately drive traffic back to Flyertalk.

I'm happy to discuss further via PM.

Now wondering if this was an "ask for forgiveness later" scenario.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/talkb...als-forum.html

Lots of discussion about using this tool as a way to address some other concerns (though I think after they changed the refresh rate for the RSS feed, it eliminated the need for it).

No mention there that it might not be permitted. I thought there were posts from IB staff discussing the use of that tool, but I don't see it. I see the FT Community Director posted about it, but not anything like the approval that you're looking for :)

Thank you! I also don't see any explicit prohibitions either, so that works for me too.

I know most websites have these "crawler-exclusion-clauses," but they usually aren't relevant/enforced unless another website is importing massive amount of data and republishing it for some benefit.

Just thought I'd double check. I like FT a bit more than most websites. :P