# intermittent email notification

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**Created:** [April 29, 2002, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intermittent-email-notification/106245 "2002-04-29T07:35:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intermittent-email-notification/106245/1 "2002-04-29T07:35:43Z")

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I have noticed lately that I only get email notification on some threads.

It can be embarrassing when I post something and then get no notification and so appear to have done a hit and run (when in fact I have just assumed that there must have been no further posts because I haven’t received an email).

It’s very odd. It is certainly not a universal problem. There are currently a couple of threads where I’m getting notifications by the minute. And others where it was only because I happened to see the name of the last poster on the index page that I realised that there had been more posts but I hadn’t recieved an email.

To answer some of the questions you are bound to ask, I am set up to log in automatically, and that seems to work. It seems to be a “thread by thread” thing. I either get email notifications in a particular thread or I do not. I never untick the email notification box.

Any comments?

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**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intermittent-email-notification/106245/2 "2002-04-29T07:37:46Z")

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Dammit, sorry, I just saw all the other threads on this topic. Sorry, I’m wasting your time. Please close this.