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Richard Davey
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Posted: 18th Feb 2005 11:12
Hi all,

A new little forum feature is enabled - MailBack. If you set a MailBack email address in your forum Profile and tick the little box on the post form then you'll receive an email each time someone replies to the thread (except you).

At the moment you have to actually start the thread or post a reply to it in order to enable MailBack, but I might change that. You also cannot turn it off yet

Give it a shot, am interested to know if it works for you, especially those on sHatmail, err I mean Hotmail.

Cheers,

Rich

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Osiris
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Posted: 18th Feb 2005 11:18
Quote: "especially those on sHatmail, err I mean Hotmail."



Great feature to have!

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Posted: 18th Feb 2005 12:05
Thanks A LOT !!!
now i'll consult more the stuffs , it's really what lacked to the forum , the key with the door and lock , or the ice with tea , or ...
well thanks Rich , lee , all

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Posted: 18th Feb 2005 12:31
Nice feature. Thanks Rich

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Posted: 18th Feb 2005 14:34
Yeah great

But there is one question : Who will be the one that will activate it for Word association ?

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Posted: 18th Feb 2005 18:04
looks a good feature - something that i think we all wanted round here

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David T
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Posted: 18th Feb 2005 18:34
Quote: "Who will be the one that will activate it for Word association ?"


Now that would be funny

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Posted: 18th Feb 2005 19:40
oh nice feature. cant wait for some more features

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Posted: 18th Feb 2005 21:58
i would like to say that this feature is working nicely, now just implement it so that you don't have to post to activate it

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Posted: 19th Feb 2005 00:05
Just what I've been waiting for.. Is it possible to have in your profile, that by default it's on or off for all your posts?

When to try it, got distracted, cliked send and hadn't ticked the box .

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Richard Davey
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Posted: 19th Feb 2005 00:30
Yeah guess so, could get annoying though if you forget to turn it off Might be easier if I just make it so you can subscribe to a thread regardless of contributing to it.

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Posted: 19th Feb 2005 00:34
@Rich, That sounds a better idea

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Posted: 19th Feb 2005 00:40
Quote: "You also cannot turn it off yet"



hehehe....

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Posted: 19th Feb 2005 04:09
About time. Great.
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Posted: 19th Feb 2005 06:32
Good stuff...I spotted it earlier but thought it was me missing a feature that had been there for months again.

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Posted: 20th Feb 2005 00:51
Just imagine how many emails you would get if you enabled mailback for the threads "Word Association","L33T coder. Willing to make a sub-par effort. Right here ",and some other 1,000 posts threads.


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Posted: 22nd Feb 2005 14:56
Why can't it email you only once if the thread has been replied to since you last visited, like any other forum software does?


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Posted: 23rd Feb 2005 09:08
Good feature. Using Hotmail I noticed some of the messages go to my inbox, whereas others go to the junk folder, not a big problem though.

Keep up the good work


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Richard Davey
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Posted: 25th Feb 2005 08:26
Quote: "Why can't it email you only once if the thread has been replied to since you last visited, like any other forum software does?"


Because it's mailing you the replies to your post, not the fact there has just been "activity" in the thread, they are two different things (and I find the "there has been activity" option quite useless, I want to actually SEE the messages).

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Posted: 25th Feb 2005 09:52
*Watches jebus crap his pants*


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Posted: 25th Feb 2005 17:52
Any chance of a daily digest option? I had 30 messages this morning

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Posted: 25th Feb 2005 21:12 Edited at: 25th Feb 2005 21:13
Ummm. Gmail works well for this. It groups all the repiles in "conversations". I would have never thought that this system of grouping messages would have a use.


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Posted: 26th Feb 2005 00:12
Yeah i just found that aswell, it great !
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Posted: 26th Feb 2005 04:18
Quote: "Because it's mailing you the replies to your post, not the fact there has just been "activity" in the thread, they are two different things (and I find the "there has been activity" option quite useless, I want to actually SEE the messages)."


Maybe you do believe it to be useless, but generally when I get spammed by any website with 40+ emails a day, I tend to start ignoring them rather quickly. While the gmail grouping is a nice solution to the problem, gmail isn't used by everyone. The point of the forum is so you can go there and read. If I wanted to be added to a mailing list, I'd subscribe to a DarkBasic mailing list.

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It might just be a French thing, I dunno, but you seem to grow more useless every day.


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Posted: 26th Feb 2005 05:08
Quote: "Maybe you do believe it to be useless, but generally when I get spammed by any website with 40+ emails a day, I tend to start ignoring them rather quickly."


If you've no interest in what people write in reply to your thread then don't actually enable MailBack then?

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Posted: 26th Feb 2005 05:42
Quote: "It might just be a French thing, I dunno, but you seem to grow more useless every day."

You are calling Multisync useless?
I won't reply to that, this is Rich's thread


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Posted: 26th Feb 2005 05:44 Edited at: 26th Feb 2005 05:50
Quote: "If you've no interest in what people write in reply to your thread then don't actually enable MailBack then?"


That's side-stepping the point I made entirely. It's not that I don't want to know what the people said, it's that I don't need every single reply as an email. As a feature, it could save you time searching the forum for the threads you're interested in, to simply know whether they've been active since you left. As I said, the point of the forum is to come and read. The point of a mailing list is to let the reading come to you. I'd like something in between that tells me when the things I want to read, actually have new content.

Quote: "You are calling Multisync useless?
I won't reply to that, this is Rich's thread "


Check out your last 50 posts, how many of them have actually added something tangible to the topic you posted in? (other than Multisync, which in and of itself is your topic, and you can do with it as you please) If you're not going to reply to it, why hit the 'Post Message' button?


Anyhoo, if both discussions are still going 'til then, I'll be back in 8-9 hours to add more input, if necessary (damn work!).


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Posted: 26th Feb 2005 05:57 Edited at: 26th Feb 2005 06:04
Dude, you can't go around trying to start arguements with everyone.

Especially Rich.

Quote: "Check out your last 50 posts, how many of them have actually added something tangible to the topic you posted in?"

Check out the one where I explained about interpreting code.

Now what I want you to do, is check out your last 50 posts, and see how many of them you weren't rude in. I'm really sorry if me posting a few useless comments here and there annoys you, I do try my best to even them out with useful posts.




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Posted: 26th Feb 2005 07:27
Do not turn this into a flamewar over one insignificant comment. There's a useful discussion going on here, lest it be spoiled by pointless bickering.


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Benjamin
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Posted: 26th Feb 2005 08:42
Sorry , feel free to delete my posts in this thread.


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Posted: 27th Feb 2005 00:15
The gmail grouping thing is great it's one of it's best points in my mind as some of my email conversations have gone up to 70 emails

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