We have liftoff! Michael Potts has implemented the new module for email notifications, asked me to test drive it, and all looks good. What we had previously was notification of postings to existing threads to which we had subscribed by clicking the "notify me" box at the end of posting a response ourselves. What we now have, and what I am ecstatic about, is a notification when somebody starts an entirely new thread. One could not subscribe to a thread (as above) if one never knew of its existence in the first place.
So, what do you have to do to get hitched up? At the Forum home page, click on
Control Center in the banner at the very top of the page in the upper right corner to get to your Personal Profile. You'll see a new option amongst the Options on the left for
Forum Subscriptions. Click on that, and you will get a long list of all the category headings. If you want to be informed of absolutely everything, simply click on the
All Forums box. Or you can choose from the drop-down list what you want, and in the last column choose
After Each Post. I am not interested in Nectarines and Paw Paws, so I selected each topic that I do wish to follow explicitly.
Things for which you are not subscribed do not show up in one's email. New threads you do sign on for (such as any posting in Apples, in my case) generate a message in one's email, with the full text of the new posting, together with a link to go to the thread on the HON Forum. All responses within this category will also result in a notification in one's email box. If you don't want these periodic emails, by default you will not receive any notifications. If, like me, you want to be informed when somebody comes up with a brilliant new insight, login and make your desires known.
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 01/05/2013 02:35AM by Michael Phillips.