# A couple of questions about the new board **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 25, 2002, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-questions-about-the-new-board/110811 "2002-05-25T17:28:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2002, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-questions-about-the-new-board/110811/1 "2002-05-25T17:28:08Z")
1. Why do e-mails telling me when someone’s replied to a thread I’ve posted in only come if I started the thread now? I liked being reminded via e-mail of a thread I’d forgotten I’d posted in. 2. Howcome I keep getting listed as Unregistered on the list of last poster to reply to a thread? ---
**Author:** ![rsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@rsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsa)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2002, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-questions-about-the-new-board/110811/2 "2002-05-25T19:05:40Z")
1. I think they have changed the default to not send emails. I’m for anything that will keep the board chugging along. You can check “Email Notification” box when posting a reply if you want emails or click “Subscribe to this thread”. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2002, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-questions-about-the-new-board/110811/3 "2002-05-27T15:57:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Silentgoldfish \* > > 1. Why do e-mails telling me when someone’s replied to a thread I’ve posted in only come if I started the thread now? It doesn’t happen automatically. You have to do at least one of the following: [list=A][li]subscribe to the thread in the user control panel (user cp button)[/li][li]or set “_Use ‘Email Notification’ by default?_” to yes in “User cp -\> Edit Options”[/li][li]or check the “Email Notification” box when you post.[/list=A][/li]BTW I don’t recommend using the e-mail notification feature [list=A][li]because it’s unreliable due to the server being overworked[/li][li]and it causes more work for the server compounding problem A.[/list=A][/li] > [@](#): > > 1. Howcome I keep getting listed as Unregistered on the list of last poster to reply to a thread? That can happen sometimes if you use the quick reply box and get logged off. Don’t use the quick reply box to prevent that from happening, and/or set these two options to yes in “User cp -\> Edit Options”: _Automatically login when you return to the site? (uses cookies)_ _Browse board with cookies?_ ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2002, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-questions-about-the-new-board/110811/4 "2002-05-28T08:02:42Z")
Arnold, if you don’t recommmend using E-mail notification, what do you suggest for people like me who don’t have time to read every thread, but who like to keep tabs on their previous posts? What I currently do is run a search on my name over the past one day, but I believe that this method is subject to both of the problems you listed as well. ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2002, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-questions-about-the-new-board/110811/5 "2002-05-28T08:07:08Z")
Bookmark the threads you posted to in your browser. That’s how I do it, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2002, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-questions-about-the-new-board/110811/6 "2002-05-28T09:23:41Z")
Good idea. I guess that would probably work for most people, but I routinely access the board through several different computers. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2002, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-questions-about-the-new-board/110811/7 "2002-05-28T22:03:26Z")
Then I suggest you simply e-mail the URL to yourself. You can presumably read your e-mail from each of your several machines, right? ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2002, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-questions-about-the-new-board/110811/8 "2002-05-28T22:32:30Z")
Okay I’ll try that. I don’t think it’s as simple for me as the other methods, but anything I can do to help out the boards. ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2002, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-questions-about-the-new-board/110811/9 "2002-05-29T21:36:58Z")
While **Arnold Winkelried** doesn’t recommend using the email notification feature, I don’t think he has any problem with using the thread subscription feature in your User CP. It is more reliable and allows you to check all the threads you are interested in very efficiently. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2002, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-questions-about-the-new-board/110811/10 "2002-05-30T15:47:57Z")
Actually White Lightning the email notification feature and the subscribe to thread feature do pretty much the same thing, with the main difference (the only difference AFAIK) being that with subscribe thread you don’t have to make a post in the thread. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2002, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-questions-about-the-new-board/110811/11 "2002-05-30T15:49:03Z")
BTW I’m not saying people should **never** use it, but use it judiciously, and don’t depend on the e-mails being sent to you because e-mails have proven to be not 100% reliable in the past.