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Posted on: Fri, 01/02/2009 - 04:46
Felix Chang
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Email Notifications for Forum Postings are now enabled by default
Dear Alloy Community Member,

Moving our forum from Yahoo has meant that many members who wanted to
see postings as email messages without going to the website were unable
to do so. We've therefore added a new email notification feature.
You are receiving this message through this feature. If you'd like to
turn these notifications off, or change your settings, just login and
click on "my email subscription" link on the left.

Comments welcome -- just reply to this posting by clicking on the URL above.

-- Felix Chang and Daniel Jackson
 
Posted on: Fri, 01/02/2009 - 13:48    #1
cmsmcq
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Thank you!  This will be a huge help for me (and presumably for others
who work the way I do).

--C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
  cmsmcq AT acm.org
  http://cmsmcq/mib
 
Posted on: Mon, 01/05/2009 - 10:32    #2
leavens
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When I try to click on "my email subscription" I get an error saying "Access denied You are not authorized to access this page."
 
Posted on: Mon, 01/05/2009 - 10:33    #3
Felix Chang
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Hi: Are you logged in before clicking that link?
(I'm supposed to hide that link when the user is not logged in,
but I haven't figured out how yet)

Sincerely,
Felix Chang
Alloy4 Developer
 
Posted on: Tue, 01/06/2009 - 04:03    #4
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I have the same problem: I am logged in but I am not authorized to access the page to change the email subscription settings.
 
Posted on: Tue, 01/06/2009 - 09:46    #5
Felix Chang
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Sorry everyone, there was a misconfiguration on my part. I apologize.
Everyone should have the permission now to modify their notification settings.

Sincerely,
Felix Chang
 
Posted on: Tue, 01/06/2009 - 13:02    #6
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correct. It works fine now.

Thanks Felix.
 
Posted on: Thu, 01/29/2009 - 11:23    #7
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how about sending email notifications with the subject relevant to the topic updated? Same way every email group works, so that (at least on gmail) the topics can be organized..
instead of "Alloy comunnities updates" just "[Alloy] Translation capacity exceeded ", if the topic updated is "Translation capacity exceeded", for example.
Best regards,
B.
 
Posted on: Thu, 01/29/2009 - 11:36    #8
Felix Chang
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That is impossible, since we currently only send out email digests,
so each email can contain messages belonging to multiple postings.

One alternative is to include the date in the subject,
so that it says "Alloy Community Update - 2008 Jan 29"
or something like that.  Would that address your concern?
 
Posted on: Mon, 02/09/2009 - 09:50    #9
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It's just that I'm used to finding out if I'm interested on the contents of the email or not based on the "subject" field :] I never realized it was a digest, I tought the emails were singular.
None the less, it's just a matter of getting used to it.
Thanks for the reply though :]
best regards,
b

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