Thread subscription question

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When someone replies to a thread to which I have subscribed, I get an email. I’d prefer not to, and just check my subscribed threads when I come to the boards. Can I disable the emails - I looked in the user CP, and found nothing. The option “Send you an email when someone replies to a thread IN WHICH YOU HAVE PARTICIPATED” (my emphasis) is set to “No,” but that doesn’t quite apply to my question perfectly.

Thanks,

hrh

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Umm, yeah. You can unsubscribe to the thread—follow the instructions at the bottom of the e-mail. If you don’t wish notification of responses, why would you subscribe? I suggest keeping a folder of shortcuts to threads you wanna watch on your desktop; that would seem an easy alternative.

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I subscribe to a thread so that I don’t have to page down through three pages of posts to find it, if I’m not in the mood to just browse the forum posts. I may have to just do a folder of shortcuts to the threads to avoid getting email notifications, but I’m actually reconsidering - it’s refreshing to get email that’s not spamilicious.

hrh

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Oh, okay. How 'bout this? When you create your shortcut, append it with #newpost. That will tell the server to check your stored information and take you directly to your first “unread” post in the thread specified.

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I’m not so sure about that, UncleBeer. Directives like #newpost don’t get seen by the server at all, as I understand it. They’re just there to tell your browser where to scroll, after it’s gotten the page from the server. The upshot of this is that if a thread goes to a new page between when the link is created and when it’s next viewed, then the #newpost anchor won’t even be on the page that the browser is requesting, so it will be ignored.

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Hmmm, you may be right, Chronos. I guess I dunno.

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Here’s another shortcut-type idea that avoids the anchor problems Chronos has identified.

Try appending the usual thread id URL with &goto=newpost. This is the format in which the URL’s are sent via e-mail notifications. After contacting the server, you seem to be relayed to a url that identifies a single post in the format:


http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&postid=2771132#post2771132
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OK, that should work. I rather had the impression that vB had a php argument which could be used for this, but I wasn’t sure what it was.