email notification gone bananas!

i have not seen an e-mail from fsm since sat late morning

i from what i have posted i should have had about 85-86 by now

eizzle wrote:

Well, it went a little crazy again today? Strange how it seems to come and go like that? Its been a few weeks, but it goes nuts today? It must be somebody messing with us

David Voss wrote:

Now don't get the idea that you can use this functionality for tests, dates, or whatever else.  I wouldn't want to see stuff like: "Someone help -- what are Kepler's three laws of planetary motion?" or  "Hey guys, I'm out on a date and this happened, what should I do?"

David Voss wrote:

What's this "dial up" you speak of?

Well, ya see, back when these huge lizard looking things roamed the Earth, and the caveman actually lived in caves they needed a way to communicate with other cave soceitys without the danger of being eaten by large predators, so they took a makeshift can and tied strings between them, they would throw them up in the air against the roof of the cave to let the other caves know they need to talk, that is how they got "dial up" They later adapted it to use to buy modeling supplies from scale plastic wheel suppliers at whole sale prices!

thevinman wrote:

And don't forget all us geeks with blackberry's and other such devices. With all these tiresome corporate type meetings, this would be a welcome "covert" distraction.

David Voss wrote:

What's this "dial up" you speak of? Between the time I clicked on the link in the email notice I received, waited for the page to load, and clicked on the reply button -- I was thinking I could have responded already if I had the "reply by email" feature.

Bingo! 

Bgrigg wrote:

Ah, forget the reply by email feature and concentrate on bringing back the "quick reply" feature!

That would be nice, especially for those of us with dial up

The beauty of that feature is the ability to quickly and easily stay on top of the existing threads that we're interested, especially when involved in a busy group build, while we're at work and "surfing" time is limited.  I still look at all the active topics a couple times a day like at lunch time and especially when I get home from work.

David Voss wrote:

espins1 wrote: I really like that feature, makes it much easier when I'm at work.  I simply log into my personal e-mail account and see the replies to the posts I am interested in.  If I want to add something, the link takes me right to it, I say my piece and move on.  Makes it very easy to stay up on the boards. You'd probably like one of the features the developers of this forum software have been working on.  It allows you to subscribe to a forum (similar to how you can now) but instead of having to visit the forum to reply, you could post a reply via email -- hit reply, type the message, and send. Aside from having to upgrade the forum software, I don't know if we'll be able to provide this feature here due to licensing costs -- but it would be neat to try out here once.  I've used it on the development site and it's pretty cool!

i don't like that idea, and you should not either  because in the end you will get less people out there and i know many people see the problem already now this could make it worse

here is why

when i read my email i clik on the link to reply to what ever it may be and while i am out there(on your site) i scan other posts too and i know that many of us do the same thing. if one answers the post just thru the email they wont really be visiting the site and therefore less visits less participation etc..

this is  just my opinion

i could be wrong and if i am  cool

but worth a  little thought

espins1 wrote:

I really like that feature, makes it much easier when I'm at work.  I simply log into my personal e-mail account and see the replies to the posts I am interested in.  If I want to add something, the link takes me right to it, I say my piece and move on.  Makes it very easy to stay up on the boards.

David Voss wrote:

That's odd. I apologize for those of you who have been affected by this, it's certainly not intentional. I haven't noticed because like Bill said, I turned it off myself.  Everytime a new post is made, it sends out an email.

I really like that feature, makes it much easier when I'm at work.  I simply log into my personal e-mail account and see the replies to the posts I am interested in.  If I want to add something, the link takes me right to it, I say my piece and move on.  Makes it very easy to stay up on the boards.

The only down side is I'll have a bagillion e-mails in my inbox when I get home, but no biggie, sort by sender, select all the finescale e-mails, delete.  LOL

i ask this a week after the new forum started and it has been 2-3 of the same e-mail notices for that long now

the only new thing i noticed yesterday is i must hit delete 3-4 times before they go away