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Question

PLEASE stop the automatic notification

Forum|Forum|17 years ago
April 8, 2009
3 replies
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IF I want to be notified about additional threads to which I have contributed, then I'll ASK to be notified. We should have to opt-in in order to receive notifications.

Stop the automatic notifications.

Get rid of all the fluff.

Bah!

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Phos_four_dots

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After I finally decided to take the plunge on these new frums, and before I actually participated in anything here I checked EVERY menu, link, preference and option. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.

It's a habit I generally have with any new software or online environment I encounter.

Thus, I was consequently aware of the email notifications for thread participation and made sure to turn them off, and to not subscribe to anything. Hence, I've never gotten any of the emails y'all are complaining about. That's been one nice thing I haven't had to hassle with here, at least.

HOWEVER!

I don't expect there to be a lot of activity in this regard, but I do get email notification when my Private Messages inbox receives a new entry. And as far as I've been able to tell, there's no way to turn that off. I suppose I could create a Spam filter for them in Thunderbird and never see them at all, but that just seems like yet one more workaround I'd have to perform for something that should be a user preference in the forum software in the first place.

Kath-H

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Especially since we now get that nifty orange glow on Your Stuff.

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Anonymous

Phos,

Yeah, well, I would say you have more time on your hands than most! I logged in, went to the photography forum and rummaged around. Saw I was getting emails, went to my preferences and turned it off. Seemed logical that I would no longer receive emails. As many others can attest, the fact that we have to take 4-5 steps to get ALL the email notifications off is entirely and totally ABSURD. I have succeeded, but NEVER should have had to go through all that.

Please don't condescend to those of us who didn't RTFM when we really felt it logical that our preference settings should have been good enough!

I'm sure you know me well enough that I can share with you this way!

Hopper

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Anonymous

It would be nice if there was an additional link in the e-mail notification that allowed one to unsubscribe from watching a thread.

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Anonymous

Terri_F wrote:
It would be nice if there was an additional link in the e-mail notification that allowed one to unsubscribe from watching a thread.

THERE'S a good idea!!!

Phillip M Jones

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If its its working (currently there is a debate on whether it works or not) go back to the Main forums and and on ech one you are subscribed to (named differently now) and choose stop E-mail Notification.

Now click on Your Stuff then choose Preferences you can choose to receive only e-mail notification to subjects you have responded.

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Bob_PetersAuthor

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Phillip:

Yes, I am aware what must be done to disable the responses. That isn't the point.

The preview forum was "opt-in" which has now been changes to "opt-out". The latter is more appropriate.

Curt Wrigley

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We all agree it should be Opt In. Hopefully it will be changed.

But, the preview was Not Opt in. It was setup exactly the same. Its that the email servers were not delivering the mail till the final coupld days of the preview. So few people saw the unwanted email.

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