# e-mail notification **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 11, 2002, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e-mail-notification/97635 "2002-03-11T18:04:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![justwannano](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ab992/32.png) [@justwannano](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justwannano)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e-mail-notification/97635/1 "2002-03-11T18:04:42Z")
Help Help Eventhough I have disabled thread e-mail notification I am recieving notifications that there are replys. What can I do??? ---
**Author:** ![Earthling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/90db22/32.png) [@Earthling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthling)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e-mail-notification/97635/2 "2002-03-11T20:39:58Z")
I have the opposite problem – I _do_ have e-mail notification turned on, but am receiving nothing. Maybe we need a swap. ---
**Author:** ![Winnowill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4491bb/32.png) [@Winnowill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnowill)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e-mail-notification/97635/3 "2002-03-12T16:04:23Z")
I’m getting e-mails EVERY time somebody responds to a thread, not just once. This is whether I’m logged into the board or not. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e-mail-notification/97635/4 "2002-03-12T20:47:13Z")
Right, that’s how it works. Go back and read it again. > [@](#): > > Use ‘Email Notification’ by default? > Using this option emails you whenever someone replies to a thread that you have participated in. It means that if this is enabled, you get an e-mail every time someone posts to a thread that you have also posted in. It doesn’t have anything to do with whether you’re logged in at all, since your e-mail account is still available even if you’re logged out. ---
**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:** [March 12, 2002, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e-mail-notification/97635/5 "2002-03-12T21:28:50Z")
If it’s e-mails for one particular thread that are causing a problem, let a staff member know and we can turn off e-mail notification for you. We will investigate problems with e-mail notification when things have settled down a little bit. ---
**Author:** ![barbitu8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@barbitu8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/barbitu8)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2002, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e-mail-notification/97635/6 "2002-03-13T17:26:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Earthling \* > \*\*I have the opposite problem – I _do_ have e-mail notification turned on, but am receiving nothing. Maybe we need a swap. \*\* Could be that you had Excite with @home email address and you changed it after 12/7. I notice that any changes made after 12/7 while the site was down were not recovered. ---
**Author:** ![Earthling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/90db22/32.png) [@Earthling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthling)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2002, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e-mail-notification/97635/7 "2002-03-15T00:19:27Z")
No, I don’t have an @Home address. Actually, I’m get e-mail notifications just fine in the evenings, so it sounds like a server load issue during heavy-use periods. IOW, people, stop posting during the day and get back to work!!! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Winnowill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4491bb/32.png) [@Winnowill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnowill)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2002, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e-mail-notification/97635/8 "2002-03-15T01:14:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Earthling \* > \*\*No, I don’t have an @Home address. Actually, I’m get e-mail notifications just fine in the evenings, so it sounds like a server load issue during heavy-use periods. IOW, people, stop posting during the day and get back to work!!! 😉 \*\* That’s exactly what’s happening to me. Yesterday morning, though, I had 101 e-mails of responses to threads - most of them repeats. I only need one e-mail. Not one for every single person who posts. Yahoo will string me up!