# How to turn off email announcements? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [February 5, 2001, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-turn-off-email-announcements/53166 "2001-02-05T04:04:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Race\_Bannon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Race\_Bannon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Race_Bannon)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2001, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-turn-off-email-announcements/53166/1 "2001-02-05T04:04:03Z")
I’d like to discontinue email announcements for one particular thread only. How can I do this? ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2001, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-turn-off-email-announcements/53166/2 "2001-02-05T04:38:34Z")
Post again to the thread without checking the email notification box. ---
**Author:** ![tshirts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@tshirts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tshirts)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2001, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-turn-off-email-announcements/53166/3 "2001-02-05T06:35:05Z")
I think TubaDiva said that was just turned back on after being off for a while. So some people will have forgotten they even clicked it because when they click on it the first time nothing happened. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2001, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-turn-off-email-announcements/53166/4 "2001-02-05T10:26:06Z")
> [@](#): > > I think TubaDiva said that was just turned back on after being off for a while. E-mail notification of responses to a thread has _never_ been turned off. The “e-mail this page to a friend” feature is, however, disabled since the potential for abuse is too high. Anyway, Kelly, Gunslinger has answered your concerns correctly. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2001, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-turn-off-email-announcements/53166/5 "2001-02-05T14:36:26Z")
I turned on the “email to a friend” function. If it gets abused again I will not only turn the function off, I will remove all traces of it from our system. But I want this to work for you folks, so let’s use it in the spirit in which it was intended. your humble TubaDiva Administrator ---
**Author:** ![tshirts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@tshirts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tshirts)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2001, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-turn-off-email-announcements/53166/6 "2001-02-06T03:49:05Z")
FYI. Since it was so recent I didn’t think I’d have to look up the reference, but here it is. All of 2 days before I posted. [I started a thread, but…](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=58144) > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Togepi no Miko \* > \*\*I started a thread in IMHo called people Who Need to GO AWAY! (no dopers). I did _not_ disable the send me meail when there is a response, but I have just seen that there have been 25 responses and I have not received ONE email notification. Could you look into this for me? > Thanks. \*\* > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TubaDiva 02-02-2001 03:18 PM \* > \*\*At different times the function has been turned on and off, mostly turned on when one of the techs has been checking a function on the board and needed the notification. > > I’ve turned it on for the time being . . . . let’s see how this goes. If it’s abused, I’ll simply turn it off again. And remove the coding from the page altogether and that will be the end of it. But hopefully I won’t have to do that, whenever possible we like to be able to give our Teemsters every privilege that we can. > > The default IS set to “off,” you have to indicate every time that you wish to use it. And I believe it turns off until you return to the board . . . then it resets. I think. > > your humble TubaDiva > Administrator \*\* So that’s what I was remembering. I don’t use the option because when I tried it once I was flooded with email. ---
**Author:** ![jack\_ss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c77e96/32.png) [@jack\_ss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jack_ss)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2001, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-turn-off-email-announcements/53166/7 "2001-02-08T02:56:17Z")
Switch from AOL to MSN without removing the AOL adapters in network config. You won’t get ANY email. ---
**Author:** ![Race\_Bannon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Race\_Bannon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Race_Bannon)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2001, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-turn-off-email-announcements/53166/8 "2001-02-08T03:23:59Z")
I’ve tried posting to the thread in question (Cruchyfrog’s over in MPSIMS and unchecking the email notification box, but I still get notified. I’ll try it again, right here, right now. If you don’t hear from me again in this thread, you know it worked. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2001, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-turn-off-email-announcements/53166/9 "2001-02-08T11:10:59Z")
Turning off the notification here will have no effect on any other thread; it works on a _per thread_basis. However, I found the post where you turned on e-mail notification and I have turned it off. I think. ---
**Author:** ![Race\_Bannon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Race\_Bannon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Race_Bannon)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2001, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-turn-off-email-announcements/53166/10 "2001-02-09T02:50:29Z")
This is not working. For example, I’d like to stop getting email notification of replies to this thread. I mean right here, this one. I know it won’t affect anywhere else, but for now, I don’t care. I’m typing this post, and I’m going to go to the bottom and remove the check from Email Notification, just like I did yesterday. Then I’ll post this reply, and I’ll bet I’ll get an email when somebody else posts, just like I did today. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_and\_I](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Cat\_and\_I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_and_I)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2001, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-turn-off-email-announcements/53166/11 "2001-02-09T05:08:47Z")
So you want someone to post after you? I can do that. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2001, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-turn-off-email-announcements/53166/12 "2001-02-09T13:12:39Z")
> [@](#): > > For example, I’d like to stop getting email notification of replies to this thread. Done. You should no longer be receiving notification of repiles to this thread. For your notebook, if you’d like this “feature” turned off for you at any time in the future, simpley e-mail one of the appropriate forum moderators with the title and/or link to the specific thread, and they’ll accomodate you. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2001, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-turn-off-email-announcements/53166/13 "2001-02-10T01:56:38Z")
You’re way ahead of me, Unc. And not for the first time today even. your humble TubaDiva Administrator ---
**Author:** ![Race\_Bannon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Race\_Bannon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Race_Bannon)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2001, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-turn-off-email-announcements/53166/14 "2001-02-10T03:49:01Z")
So, to summarize here- it is **not** possible for an individual to turn off email announcements to a thread, once they’ve been activated. Asking a moderator to do so seems unnecessarily bothersome to me. I can’t believe I’m the only one that ever wanted to do this.