# Anyone else receiving duplicate email notification? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 27, 2004, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-receiving-duplicate-email-notification/226328 "2004-01-27T21:03:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2004, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-receiving-duplicate-email-notification/226328/1 "2004-01-27T21:03:23Z")
I’m getting two email notifications for the same post if I’m actually on the board at the time a post is made. Is this happening to anyone else, or is it just me? ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2004, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-receiving-duplicate-email-notification/226328/2 "2004-01-28T13:47:30Z")
Yes! I had been getting double notifications for posts, but I just got SIX notifications, all exactly the same. I guess the hamsters are really working overtime. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2004, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-receiving-duplicate-email-notification/226328/3 "2004-01-28T14:00:50Z")
It happened again! Two different threads, six identical notifications for each one! “There may be other replies also, but **you will not receive any more notifications** until you visit the forum again.” Well, thank God for that! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2004, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-receiving-duplicate-email-notification/226328/4 "2004-01-28T14:46:58Z")
I often get more than one notification - but not always. As with the old notification system, there’s little consistency. Sometimes posts are made to a thread to which I’ve posted - and I get no notification. Other times I do get a notification. Other times still, I get three notifications to the same post. Other, other times, I get three notifications to three different posts. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2004, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-receiving-duplicate-email-notification/226328/5 "2004-01-28T15:39:07Z")
Yeah, we know the e-mail thing is wonky. It’s probably due to our poor over-taxed server though, rather than any sofware bug. At least, that is our suspicion. I dunno how we could test that. Sorry for any inconvenience. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2004, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-receiving-duplicate-email-notification/226328/6 "2004-01-29T12:35:57Z")
No big deal, **UncleBeer.** I found it mildly amusing, which just shows how insanely bored I am after three days of being stuck in the house by the snow. Thank God the kids are going back to school today. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2004, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-receiving-duplicate-email-notification/226328/7 "2004-01-29T19:43:06Z")
> [@](#): > > There may be other replies also, but you will not receive any more notifications until you visit the forum again. There’s the key, right there. While you’re still on the board, you’re visiting the forum again every time you click on anything. So every new thread opened, every reply posted, every profile viewed, can potentially lead to a new notification. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2004, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-receiving-duplicate-email-notification/226328/8 "2004-01-29T19:49:29Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > There’s the key, right there. While you’re still on the board, you’re visiting the forum again every time you click on anything. So every new thread opened, every reply posted, every profile viewed, can potentially lead to a new notification. Ah, if only that _were_ the key! I’ve gotten multiple emails while having no browser open, let alone being on the board.