Forum subscription

J Bytheway · May 31, 2002, 16:16

Possibly this is in the FAQ, but I couldn't find it...

What does it mean to subscribe to a forum? It appears to do nothing but add that forum to my control panel.

Martin Gühmann · May 31, 2002, 16:33

Yes and from your profile you can enter the subscribed fora, see if there is something new there, go to the last post and post from your profile a new thread. Actual very useful if you use your controll panel as start page for the fora. But this is actual no option for me I use the links from the reply notification forum e-mailer. And I don't use cookies therefore I don't want to log in immediately, just to read the forum pages.

-Martin

J Bytheway · May 31, 2002, 16:35

It might be nice if you were notified by e-mail of new threads in forums to which you were subscribed.

MarkG · May 31, 2002, 16:38

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It appears to do nothing but add that forum to my control panel

that's its purpose

you can then booomark your control panel and use that as your starting page

Zoid · June 1, 2002, 14:27

Basically, what it means is that Poly sends you a e-mail whenever anyone answers in a thread you´ve subscribed to. Utterly useless IMO, cause all it does is clutter up your mailbox with notification e-mails. If it could somehow distinguish between a answer to me or an answer to someone else, then it would be useful. Fortunately you can disable the subscribe option in the cp.

J Bytheway · June 1, 2002, 14:30

I was talking about forum subscription - that's thread subscription.

DarkCloud · June 1, 2002, 14:33

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Originally posted by J Bytheway
It might be nice if you were notified by e-mail of new threads in forums to which you were subscribed.

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You would be deluged by emails in that case. Especially if you subscribed to one of the more popular fora.

For it to work well, it would be best if it mailed you all the threads started 'that day'

Mercator · June 1, 2002, 14:37

Is it by any chance possible to turn off e-mail notification (but still being able to subscribe to threads and get the updates in your cp only)?

DarkCloud · June 1, 2002, 15:01

Not that I know of Mercator- Mark may have other answers, however

J Bytheway · June 1, 2002, 15:38

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Originally posted by Mercator
Is it by any chance possible to turn off e-mail notification (but still being able to subscribe to threads and get the updates in your cp only)?

Go to Control Panel -> Edit Options -> Use 'Email Notification' by default?

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Originally posted by DarkCloud
You would be deluged by emails in that case. Especially if you subscribed to one of the more popular fora.

For it to work well, it would be best if it mailed you all the threads started 'that day'

Obviously I don't read the more popular forums... In the CTP ones its usually only two or three threads per day.

Zoid · June 1, 2002, 16:27

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Originally posted by J Bytheway
I was talking about forum subscription - that's thread subscription.

DOH!

But the basics are the same I assume? Forum subscription would therefore be even worse, right?

J Bytheway · June 2, 2002, 05:27

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Originally posted by Kamrat X
DOH!

But the basics are the same I assume? Forum subscription would therefore be even worse, right?

No, that's what I was puzzled about. It seems that forum subscription does nothing but add the forum to your control panel so that you can use it for quickly accessing your forums and seeing where new posts are.

Zoid · June 2, 2002, 08:06

That would actually be pretty useful...

Martin Gühmann · June 2, 2002, 08:25

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Originally posted by DarkCloud
For it to work well, it would be best if it mailed you all the threads started 'that day'

Or only one email per day which includes all the subcribed threads with a reply in it.

-Martin

Lucilla · June 2, 2002, 10:08

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Originally posted by J Bytheway

Go to Control Panel -> Edit Options -> Use 'Email Notification' by default?

I tried that, but what it does is not subscribe me to the thread so that it also won't show up on the control panel...

DarkCloud · June 2, 2002, 12:26

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Or only one email per day which includes all the subcribed threads with a reply in it.

that would be even better

But it would be a fairly long email

but who cares, it would cut down on the amount of emails

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Obviously I don't read the more popular forums... In the CTP ones its usually only two or three threads per day.

True. When you go into the non CTP-AC sections there are usually about 5-15 threads started a day at the very least.
In the OT it's around 30-50 I would assume

J Bytheway · June 2, 2002, 12:38

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Originally posted by DarkCloud
that would be even better

But it would be a fairly long email

but who cares, it would cut down on the amount of emails

Am I the only one who doesn't mind these e-mails? If they only sent one per day I couldn't wander away from my computer and then know to come back whenever I get a new e-mail to read the reply.

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True. When you go into the non CTP-AC sections there are usually about 5-15 threads started a day at the very least.
In the OT it's around 30-50 I would assume

Always steered clear of OT (well - posted one thread there once for a good reason ages ago). I spend far too much time on Apolyton as it is...

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Originally posted by Lucilla
I tried that, but what it does is not subscribe me to the thread so that it also won't show up on the control panel...

- This time it was me that misread the question. Sorry...

DarkCloud · June 3, 2002, 13:43

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Am I the only one who doesn't mind these e-mails? If they only sent one per day I couldn't wander away from my computer and then know to come back whenever I get a new e-mail to read the reply.

But it's faster just to check the forum..

MarkG · June 3, 2002, 17:13

sending a mail to everyone subscribed to the forum every time a thread is started would generate tons of mails

we're looking at other ideas though

DarkCloud · June 4, 2002, 14:30

....Such as sending one email a day or, to please J Bytheway, only sending an email once a day if there is a new thread OR sending 2 emails a day, one at 00:00 GMT and the other at 12:00 GMT... Perhaps adjustable?

J Bytheway · June 4, 2002, 14:36

Well, from the response here some people wouldn't want any mails, so it should be something distinct from forum subscription.

Lucilla · June 4, 2002, 14:47

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Originally posted by J Bytheway
Well, from the response here some people wouldn't want any mails, so it should be something distinct from forum subscription.

Exactly, getting mails from from a thread is one option (you could set to default if you like), and showing the threads, you participated in / subscribed to in your control panal would be a second option.
This way everybody could choose whatever is most convinient.

J Bytheway · June 4, 2002, 14:55

Incidentally, for those who want to subscribe without getting e-mails (at least while this is impossible) have you thought of using a mail filter to remove the notification mails?

Lucilla · June 4, 2002, 15:19

Yes, I already move them automatically to the trash folder. If I use a spam guard that would remove all messages from Markos, including the newsletter, and that I want to keep. (At least that's how yahoo works)
I still get notified when I get a new mail, although it's in the trash folder already, and that can be pretty annoying. The only advantage at the moment is, that I don't have to delete them manually.