# Thread subscription question **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [February 4, 2003, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-subscription-question/152785 "2003-02-04T21:17:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2003, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-subscription-question/152785/1 "2003-02-04T21:17:59Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2003, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-subscription-question/152785/2 "2003-02-04T22:26:44Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2003, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-subscription-question/152785/3 "2003-02-04T23:07:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by UncleBeer \* > \*\*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. \*\* 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 ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-subscription-question/152785/4 "2003-02-05T12:56:05Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-subscription-question/152785/5 "2003-02-06T21:45:03Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-subscription-question/152785/6 "2003-02-06T22:14:54Z")
Hmmm, you may be right, Chronos. I guess I dunno. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2003, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-subscription-question/152785/7 "2003-02-07T17:38:43Z")
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: ```auto http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&postid=2771132#post2771132 ``` ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2003, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-subscription-question/152785/8 "2003-02-07T20:34:32Z")
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.