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Hey, is there any way to turn this function off?

Someone's following the Watercooler thread by email. Not only do I not want my email address harvested (major increase in SPAM lately) but I think it's a bit... weird to be following a personal gossip thread like that by email.

Can we disable email on certain threads?

― Sophisticated Boom Boom (kate), Monday, 28 November 2005 11:14 (twenty years ago)

It's not within my capability as a mod to turn it off for just one thread (or to turn it off in any other way, for that matter). I'm not sure what's possible from the back end. I don't think this function will give the subscriber any information that they wouldn't normally be able to see as a logged-in user (and you do have to be registered to use this function). I know there was a discussion of this function in the past and some people do use it to keep up with threads when they can't visit ilx at work, for example.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 28 November 2005 11:55 (twenty years ago)

OK, cool. Fair enough.

Maybe I should just change my email that I use for ILX.

― Sophisticated Boom Boom (kate), Monday, 28 November 2005 12:00 (twenty years ago)

AFAICR teeny is right. it gets the user as much as just reading as a reg-user, so there's nothing new to worry about.

remember if you ARE going to change yr public e-mail address, you need to keep it either genuine, or add a private e-mail address, as you will be e-mailed a new scrambled password when you make that change.

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Monday, 28 November 2005 12:12 (twenty years ago)

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