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PAUL161

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Lately I've been getting emails from the BCF about different posts being replied to, how do I stop this? I don't mind personal emails, but not every time someone replies to a post. Never happened before?? PJ
 
Same here, Paul - don't know why it started, but I think I just now fixed it. Go to "Settings", then "General Settings" on the left side of the screen; scroll down to "Messaging and Notification" where you'll see a window for thread subscription mode; it probably will have an email selection listed. You can choose "Do not subscribe" there.

Maybe Basil will pop in and confirm...
 
Hi Paul - each one of those emails includes a link to stop further emails. You can stop all "new reply" emails, or just the emails for the thread in question.

Hope this helps.
Tom M.
 
OK, got it! Thanks guys, hopefully it's ended. I get so many normal emails I really don't need any more. PJ
 
Glad you got it fixed.

(Had to chuckle, as those emails all include info on how to stop the emails themselves. But nowadays we seldom read through emails, so we never see how to stop them!)

:crazyeyes:
 
NutmegCT said:
Glad you got it fixed.

(Had to chuckle, as those emails all include info on how to stop the emails themselves. But nowadays we seldom read through emails, so we never see how to stop them!)

:crazyeyes:
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And apparently, not many people read the global posts I make, like the one I posted recently about the changes to thread subscriptions. Look at the TOP of the Pub (or any other forum since it's a global thread):

https://www.britishcarforum.com/bcf/showthread.php?112835-Change-to-thread-subscriptions
 
Mickey Richaud said:
Same here, Paul - don't know why it started, but I think I just now fixed it. Go to "Settings", then "General Settings" on the left side of the screen; scroll down to "Messaging and Notification" where you'll see a window for thread subscription mode; it probably will have an email selection listed. You can choose "Do not subscribe" there.

Maybe Basil will pop in and confirm...
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That is if you want to completely disable being notified of any replies to threads you participate in. You can also turn thread subscriptions on or off on an individual thread basis as described in the global thread I posted about changed to thread subscriptions. By the way, this was a change I made due to a suggestion when a group of moderators and a few other folks had a behind-the-scenes brainstorming session on things to do to increase forum activity. Tom had suggested making it so that people would automatically be subscribed to threads they start. Unfortunately, I don't have the ability to limit it to only threads they start, but only whether you post in a thread (i.e., you start a thread or reply to an existing thread). There have been many times when someone will post a question or make an introduction post in the forums but would never come back to see that people have replied.
 
and when it first appeared, disabling notifications for each post you do was not good. I think I figured it out just after implementation, but I also did a first strike, and formed a throw-away e-mail address and sent anything that gets through there.
Eventually gmail will get full and quit working......grin.
 
I just turned the notifications of the threads I looked at or responded to. I don't want to turn off site Administrators emails though! PJ
 
Oddly enough, I would like to have an option that goes the other way: Send a notification for every new post, whether I've viewed the thread or not. I'm subscribed to that "other" forum that way, and it works really well for me.

Of course that's a lot of email; but I've got my email client configured to download and sort BCF notifications into their own folder (on a SSD). And I can read an email and delete it a WHOLE lot faster than having to wait for a browser to open, etc.
 
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