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Hi Lundholm

Lundholm wrote: I finally received a mail. Maybe the siesta timer?

There are few forum mail links that work without delay.
The Mozilla one, for example, is very unpredictable
There is one board I read where mails bank up over days. But they have no $$ and their service provider is very cranky.
Nice to read you here.

Tom T. wrote:I see this board doesn't read sw profile.

It does know, thanks for noticing

Giorgio Maone wrote:Subscription is working fine for me, both to forum and single topics.
The fact you're getting other kinds of email from the forum should exclude spam filtering issues.
Could you check your email preferences in User Control Panel|Board Settings?

I never received any email from the forum at all. Was I suppposed to?

I haven't changed any of my forum settings, but, while I'm composing this I just received my first email from the forum, a notification for therube's most recent post in the "NoScript Support" forum. It looks like whatever was broken might be fixed now. Thanks.

You are receiving this notification because you are watching the forum,
"NoScript Support" at "InformAction Forums". This forum has received a new
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reply, no more notifications will be sent until you visit the topic.

http://forums.informaction.com/viewtopi ... &p=82&e=82

OK, quick break from life, and hurray! I have two notifications from shortly after my posts of about 8 hours ago. They went to the Spam folder, but that's an easy fix. So notifications to Yahoo are fine for this user.

Thanks for clearing up the "CP > Subscriptions" checkbox issue.

Giorgio Maone wrote:

Tom T. wrote:I see this board doesn't read sw profile.

It does know, thanks for noticing

It didn't *know* (have knowledge, conoscere). I think perhaps you meant "it does *now* (adesso)

On the other hand, I only *just now* (proprio ora) understood the extremely clever pun in your nickname: ma1, which I always read as "m - a - 1".
Ahhhh, it's "Maone", "M-A-"ONE". *Very* clever, Signore! And it took me only two years to figure it out -- probably about the millionth person to get it. That's what I get for (trying to) pronounce it in my mind in Italian, "Ma-oney", rhymes with "phony", "Sony" (TV/computers), "baloney" (US corruption of "Bologna" sandwich meat").

Back on topic: Thanks for fixing e-mail notifications of topic replies.

Tom T. wrote:It didn't *know* (have knowledge, conoscere). I think perhaps you meant "it does *now* (adesso)

Eye no, eye no.

while I'm composing this I just received my first email from the forum, a notification for therube's most recent post

That's it. Blame ME for the SPAM you're now getting in your mailbox. Well, that's alright, I don't care .

therube wrote:

while I'm composing this I just received my first email from the forum, a notification for therube's most recent post

That's it. Blame ME for the SPAM you're now getting in your mailbox. Well, that's alright, I don't care .

I checked the box for notifying me about important, erudite postings only, but yours managed to slip through somehow.

OT
Well gentlemen, I declare this forum well and truly open and a roaring success.
So much of a success that I am turning off the subscription to save overloading my mailbox.
It's great to see the numbers of support requests jump immediately; so many are daunted by the Mozillazine maze - - and I know from my own experience that when a forum appears so geeky (as a lot of Fx Mozillazine stuff does) a novice just won't put their hands up. I lurked for years myself.
/OT

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Nan M wrote:OT
Well gentlemen, I declare this forum well and truly open and a roaring success.
So much of a success that I am turning off the subscription to save overloading my mailbox.

Oh no, Nan. Don't turn us off! How can you live without asynchronous notification for each of our witty comments?

, Alan Baxter - the live feed is satisfying my need for entertainment
And spam-watching btw. I believe I caught the first spammer after you'd zzzzd off.
I'm enjoying the extra genuine traffic. It was obviously just waiting to put its hand up.
I'm offline for a couple of days now, so y'all look after our new digs.
And don't forget to sweep the floor!

I have a question of sorts, since the site is designed to allow anonymous posting, can the users pick the username of someone who IS a member? I am assuming no, but what about using the nickname of another anonymous poster? I am assuming that they can do since the forum assumes they are possibly the same. Just wondering.

AFAIK, no, yes.
Though I haven't actually tried it to find out.

therube wrote:AFAIK, no, yes.
Though I haven't actually tried it to find out.

So funny you say that, I was actually thinking about trying it and seeing for myself but I didn't want it to offend, so I figured I ask instead Now that its out there, I am going to try it if everyone's ok with it, just so I know for sure. I was asked by someone and had NO IDEA what to tell them, so maybe its worth to find out. Will edit this and keep you posted.

Update:
Using an exisiting user's information, my own id, was rejected with this message:
The username you entered is already in use, please select an alternative.

But trying to use a random anonymous user's id on the board, for this test it was g113, it allows the posting which is to be expected in case the anonymous user wants to post followup inquiries. I guess that settles that I deleted the test post immediately.