Well, we know the system can send email alerts for offline feeds, and we know the system sends an email alert the first time a new feed goes online...so, can we please have an option for an email alert whenever a feed goes ONLINE?
"Wait...what? Why would you want or need to be notified that your feed went ONLINE? That's silly!"
Not at all! In fact, there are quite a few TACTICAL/SPECIAL EVENT feeds on the site that lay dormant NOT ACTIVE until they go live. These include SKYWARN/ARES feeds and even a few public safety feeds. Since they only go online from time to time, it would make perfect sense for there to be an email alert feature to notify when they go online. You could then setup a mailing list using that alert email that would notify an unlimited number of listeners that the feed they're interested in just went live.
On a technical note, it would be crucial to be able to manually enter an email separate from the primary account address so a mailing list/forward could be setup based on it. Similar to the Alternate Notify Email field that currently exists.
"Wait...what? Why would you want or need to be notified that your feed went ONLINE? That's silly!"
Not at all! In fact, there are quite a few TACTICAL/SPECIAL EVENT feeds on the site that lay dormant NOT ACTIVE until they go live. These include SKYWARN/ARES feeds and even a few public safety feeds. Since they only go online from time to time, it would make perfect sense for there to be an email alert feature to notify when they go online. You could then setup a mailing list using that alert email that would notify an unlimited number of listeners that the feed they're interested in just went live.
On a technical note, it would be crucial to be able to manually enter an email separate from the primary account address so a mailing list/forward could be setup based on it. Similar to the Alternate Notify Email field that currently exists.
