1) Possible misunderstanding due to wording of doc.
The juxtaposition of these two sentences:
...The second format uses the home topic of the user to recover their
mail address.
This format is extended to accept the following syntaxes: ...
fosters the mis-interpretation that the "first format" (including the explicit email address) is no longer supported. Doc should be edited to remove this incorrect interpretation. Specifically, the "new" format is a superset of the "old" format.
2) Doc is also incorrect for TWiki 4:
At 19:07 +0100 10/02/2006, Crawford Currie wrote:
In TWiki-4, the users home topic is only used to find the mail address
if the mail address cannot be recovered from the password manager. So
the doc should really read:
WebNotify accepts notification requests using the following syntaxes:
three spaces * [ webname . ] wikiName - SMTP mail address
three spaces * [ webName . ] wikiName
three spaces * SMTP mail address
three spaces * SMTP mail address : topics
three spaces * [ webname . ] wikiName : topics
>
Please add a bug to the Bugs web so that we don't lose this point!
Updated as described.
CC
4.1.0 released
KJL