# Do thread subscriptions/email notifications work?

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**Created:** [December 27, 2008, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-thread-subscriptions-email-notifications-work/478850 "2008-12-27T16:24:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![CaveMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cavemike/32/16379_2.png) [@CaveMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaveMike)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-thread-subscriptions-email-notifications-work/478850/1 "2008-12-27T16:24:42Z")

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Title says it all. Are thread subscriptions/email notifications working?

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**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-thread-subscriptions-email-notifications-work/478850/2 "2008-12-27T16:58:08Z")

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> [@CaveMike](#):
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> Title says it all. Are thread subscriptions/email notifications working?

Mine are.

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**Author:** ![CaveMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cavemike/32/16379_2.png) [@CaveMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaveMike)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-thread-subscriptions-email-notifications-work/478850/3 "2008-12-29T02:49:10Z")

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> [@NineToTheSky](#):
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> Mine are.

Thanks. I am not getting thread notifications, but I am getting PM notifications.

Any ideas admins/mods? I checked my spam folder.

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**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-thread-subscriptions-email-notifications-work/478850/4 "2008-12-29T03:31:35Z")

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Thread subscription emails seem to be working OK at the moment, but they can be somewhat unreliable at other times. Sometimes I experience considerable delays in receiving email notifications of new posts to a thread.

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**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-thread-subscriptions-email-notifications-work/478850/5 "2008-12-29T05:40:50Z")

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Do you really want _ **more** _ email? I’d think it over.