# Turning off the e-mail notification

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turning-off-the-e-mail-notification/19618>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [May 15, 2000, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turning-off-the-e-mail-notification/19618 "2000-05-15T23:54:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2000, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turning-off-the-e-mail-notification/19618/1 "2000-05-15T23:54:48Z")

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Say you post replies to some really, really popular topics. You weren’t paying much attention, and the e-mail notification feature was turned On.

Is there any way to turn it Off?

I tried posting another response, and left the e-mail notice off, but that didn’t work.

I only log on after work, for a couple of hours, and today there were 116 messages in the in-box. 80 or so of them were from my good friend Webmaster.

It’s not a big deal, but is there a way to turn it off, once it’s been activated on a thread?

(I’ve learned my lesson and won’t be doing that anymore. Well, except for this one here.)

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**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2000, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turning-off-the-e-mail-notification/19618/2 "2000-05-19T03:02:36Z")

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Been wondering about that myself.

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**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:** [May 19, 2000, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turning-off-the-e-mail-notification/19618/3 "2000-05-19T03:14:53Z")

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Contact the moderator of the affected forum or any administrator; we can turn that off for you.

your humble TubaDiva  
Administrator

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**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2000, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turning-off-the-e-mail-notification/19618/4 "2000-05-19T03:17:18Z")

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Ahh. . .great. Thanks. Umm. . .could you turn it off for this thread for me now? Thanks.

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**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:** [May 19, 2000, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turning-off-the-e-mail-notification/19618/5 "2000-05-19T03:37:40Z")

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Done.

your humble TubaDiva  
Administrator

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**Author:** ![mselainey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@mselainey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mselainey)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2000, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turning-off-the-e-mail-notification/19618/6 "2000-05-20T20:15:57Z")

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This is a quick test to see how this works.