Question about Subscriptions to Threads

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I have two questions about subscribing to threads:

  1. Is it possible to subscribe to a thread without receiving an email every time someone posts to it? I just want to be able to view them in my CP.

  2. Can the boards be configured to only send out one email for a thread subscription until the user visits the thread? I’ve seen this feature in other forums. (Basically, I had 6 or so subscriptions. The email from the board was apparently hung up, because one morning I received about 50 emails notifying me that a new post was made to a thread I subscribed to. Each thread had many emails. It would be much cleaner to send one email with a note that no more notices would be sent until the thread was once again visited–like I said, I’ve seen other forum scripts do this.)

Anyway, just wanted to check.

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  1. No.

  2. This is the way it’s supposed to work. Obviously, it doesn’t always.

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I thought that’s how is should. Doesn’t for me, though. I get a barrage of email if I’m away from the computer for a while. Each thread can generate several for me.

Maybe someone on the technical end of things can look into it?

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I’ve noticed similar problems. Sometimes I’ll only get one between board visits even though there’s a number of replies (which is as it should be), but other times I’ll get one for every reply. Occasionally I will get no email even though there are a number of replies.

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It seems to be sporadic. Sometimes it works properly and sometimes it doesn’t. It’s not really perceived as a big enough problem to devote tech time to track it down. Those guys at the Chicago Reader are busy with other support stuff - things the Reader needs for day-to-day business operations. The message boards have a priority that approaches zero.