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Hello everybody!
I'd like to know if there's any way I can get notified by e-mail when I receive a new private message or when there is a new post in one of my topics. Is it posiible?
Thank you for your help!

TonyBanks74 wrote:

Hello everybody!
I'd like to know if there's any way I can get notified by e-mail when I receive a new private message or when there is a new post in one of my topics. Is it posiible?
Thank you for your help!

Not sure about private messages, but if you edit your profile (just click on your own name) and scroll down to the bottom, you'll see options to receive notices.

This is Noel. Reverb's at maximum an' I'm givin' 'er all she's got.

Ok, I think it's done. I have ticken " Automatically subscribe to every forum topic I create or reply to"

Noel wrote:

TonyBanks74 wrote:

Hello everybody!
I'd like to know if there's any way I can get notified by e-mail when I receive a new private message or when there is a new post in one of my topics. Is it posiible?
Thank you for your help!

Not sure about private messages, but if you edit your profile (just click on your own name) and scroll down to the bottom, you'll see options to receive notices.

Old_Man_Tele told me for the Private Messages in this post :
http://surfguitar101.com/forums/topic/23673/?page=2#p316769

Log in, click on "private Messages", then click on the "options" tab.
There is a check box to notify you by email.

DaveF is right about PM notifications.

Would you like this on by default? Should I turn it on for everyone or just new members? Or do you like it the way it is, where you have to opt-in to receive the notification email?

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Brian wrote:

DaveF is right about PM notifications.

Would you like this on by default? Should I turn it on for everyone or just new members? Or do you like it the way it is, where you have to opt-in to receive the notification email?

Sorry Brian didn't focus on this one , it illuded me somehow.
My feeling is that it should be ON by default and once receiving any notification then one could , if they choose, OPT OUT.

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Agreed, I think PM notification should be on automatically with opting out by choice.

Alan

Thought it was on automatically. As the lowest common denominator for info/tech stuff I'll testify that however it worked, worked. Oh, and I bothered Brian a whole bunch. Maybe we should avoid doing that. Hmmmm....what would that thread look like?

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Default ON, please Smile
Ran

The Scimitars

ON by default

The mighty KAHUNATONES
Don't Fear the Reverb ! Grateful Surf ! SURFIN' Tiki Bandits !
I can be reached through the following or at don@donschott.com. :

www.donschott.com
www.eyerecords.com
www.dontfearreverb.com
www.kokopellistages.com

So 3, maybe 4, want this turned on for everyone. No one else seems to care. Now if we had done this in the beginning it would probably be okay. But I just feel weird changing the settings of 8,610 people because 3 or 4 people are having trouble contacting people who aren't very active on the site anyway.

I'll still think about it and leave this open for discussion.

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Aloha Brian:
I know it seems weird. But I don't think that the folks I have been trying to contact are all that inactive. They were responding to the Jam for members thread. I spoke with Guy Moore this evening and asked him about if he knew he could switch nitifications ON and he said he didn't know any thing about it. He also said he did not know of this particular thread. Maybe some know now, and I posted in the jam thread about turning this feature ON. I had most of my people respond after that post happened and the rest after I posted a list of people I had left PMs for. I personally believe the PM is a valuable part of the SURF GUITAR 101 experience. I know response looks week but it is a percentage representation (according to stats used in advertising ) so each one of these votes are worth hundreds at least.

Telling people it exists would work but a lot of folks don't even know of this thread. We all get on with different agendas, interests and time schedules.

Thanks for listening.
Don

The mighty KAHUNATONES
Don't Fear the Reverb ! Grateful Surf ! SURFIN' Tiki Bandits !
I can be reached through the following or at don@donschott.com. :

www.donschott.com
www.eyerecords.com
www.dontfearreverb.com
www.kokopellistages.com

I'm not crazy about using the PMs on the site. I prefer email.
But I do think the email function should be on. And I love how the message is in the notice. That rules

Jeff(bigtikidude)

One more vote for on Big Grin

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Brian, don't fret about anyone weirding out, it's common practice. ON.
If someone has already registered to the site, it can't be considered intrusive.
Also, conveniently allows for automatic personal archiving.

BTW, the PM system make this site a lot bigger than what appears to the naked eye. Lots of deals and personal interaction, help given and received. I'm very grateful. SG101!

Last edited: Jul 23, 2015 02:16:20

One thing folks need to keep in mind is that, if they are getting their PM's and reading them via their email client, they still need to come back in to the PM area on the site and do housekeeping on their Private Messages. Not doing that causes:

"Hey I PM'd you but your inbox was full" type stuff.

I'd prefer to leave the options to the user, default=OFF; but then it doesn't bother me to take 30 seconds or a minute to setup a profile or check/uncheck a box. It's a user-level preference that, frankly, I don't think a site manager should need to be bothered with. YMMV.

So does that count, statistically, as 100 votes for leaving it up to the user?
Smile

Wes
SoCal ex-pat with a snow shovel

DISCLAIMER: The above is opinion/suggestion only & should not be used for mission planning/navigation, tweaking of instruments, beverage selection, or wardrobe choices.

I vote for Brian's idea of not fixing something that's not broke. ALWAYS side with IT- Krikey, anyone reading this thread should get the idea "Oh, that's something I can do my own self!". Imagine these people trying to upload a picture or (gasp) a link. There will be no survivors.

Da Vinci Flinglestein,
The quest for the Tone, the tone of the Quest

The Syndicate of Surf on YouTube

http://www.syndicateofsurf.com/

http://sharawaji.com/

http://surfrockradio.com/

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