# View New Posts overrided by changing my email. **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 19, 2002, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/view-new-posts-overrided-by-changing-my-email/109765 "2002-05-19T00:46:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2002, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/view-new-posts-overrided-by-changing-my-email/109765/1 "2002-05-19T00:46:52Z")
Perhaps this has been mentioned, but a quick search didn’t provide any help. I got home from work tonight at 6:00, logged on and deleted my email address from being visible on the boards. I’m trying an experiment to see where extraneous miscellaneous messages are coming from. Now, at 8:41, I’m ready to start reading all the new posts that have accumulated since last night. So I click on _View New Posts_ and get ready to read the 350-450 posts that have occured since I went to bed. WHAT! Only 75 new posts? NO way! So, obviously, the board thinks that I have viewed all the new posts, even though all I did was **change my email/visible** in my profile. I read no posts. Just another glitch that makes life a little more time consuming. Sorry to complain. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2002, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/view-new-posts-overrided-by-changing-my-email/109765/2 "2002-05-19T12:25:28Z")
Sorry I can’t h’ep with your troubles, Sam, but I _have_ to make this comment: > [@](#): > > Just another glitch that makes life a little more time consuming. Huh? This is either the most complex expression of existentialism since Søren Aabye Kierkegaard, or it’s not.