subscribe to forum...???

[mlewis]

What does subscribing to a forum do?

[honeybee]

It's nothing much. You have to shell out $3.89 per forum so that you can post questions into the forums and receive replies to the same.

And you can mail me the check.


He he, seriously I don't know myself. The only significance is that if you subscribe to a forum, you will be notified if there are any new posts in that forum. Don't know if that's a great help.



PS: That $3.89 stuff at the top is crap, just in case you are new here.

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[mlewis]

uhm, if you read my info, I'm not exactly new here

I always get post notifications, "so and so has replied to your post on the thread entitled yada yada"

Or do you mean notifications of new threads? I haven't gotten any of those...been subscribed to the general q&a forum all week, not a single "new thread" email.

[Pix]

Don't think you get emailed when there's a new thread, you normally get an email if someone has posted a reply to a thread. That's what I got anyway, until I turned it off (got waaay too many emails)

If you subscribe to a particular forum then you will get an email everytime someone posts in that forum

[mlewis]

Hmm... I not getting anything; I can't tell the diff between being subscribed and not...

[honeybee]

If you are subscribed to any threads, as soon as there is a new post in the thread you will get an email.

If you are subscribed to forums, however, click the User cp link at the top and go to My vB Home section. You will find the links to all the forums you have subscribed to appearing there. And in case there have been new posts or threads in any of these forums, you will find their icons have turned yellowish. Else they will remain darkened, to indicate there have been no new posts since you last visited these forums.

In case of unsubscribed forums, you will not get this info from your vB Home.

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[beachbum]

Subscribing does nothing useful at all. The only benefit is the life size poster of Madeline Albright which comes out around christmas and an invite to the Desert Dash & Treasure Hunt planned this January for Afghanistan. Organisers say it is still going ahead at this stage although there have been very few female entrants.

[mlewis]

lol


Eh, subscribing is stupid, why'd they add it in??? You can tell if there's new posts on the main page

[filburt1]

Maybe in sites where there are tons of forums you can only see the forums that you're interested in. It sound kinda stupid so I think we're missing something on this subscription thing...

[beachbum]

Originally posted by mlewis
Eh, subscribing is stupid, why'd they add it in??? You can tell if there's new posts on the main page

Yeah i have never used it even tho i am supposedly subscribed to general q&a. I suspect that some whiner (no clues needed i hope) probably demanded it in a tantrum and it got included. hell i dunno. I take it that you no longer want the poster. Your loss!

[mlewis]

:: scratches head furiously ::


Hrmm.....ah, I give up. I have no idea what its there for, I guess beachbum's got the right idea, musta been some whiney person's idea.

Oh well.

[honeybee]

If it had been so implemented that after logging in, or when a logged in user returned to the VB Forums website, if the User cp was the first page to be displayed, sort of a start up page, it would have been a little more useful.

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[da_silvy]

Originally posted by Pix
Don't think you get emailed when there's a new thread, you normally get an email if someone has posted a reply to a thread. That's what I got anyway, until I turned it off (got waaay too many emails)

If you subscribe to a particular forum then you will get an email everytime someone posts in that forum

You think you get waaaay to many emails???



You should see my mailbox after a day

[mlewis]

I usually run about 100-150 messages from VBForums a day; how 'bout you?

[da_silvy]

i dunno, i don't let them clutter my inbox, prolly more than that....

at the end of the day, i have about 220 in my trash

[honeybee]

Originally posted by da_silvy


You think you get waaaay to many emails???



You should see my mailbox after a day

Care to give me your password? I would love to do that.



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[da_silvy]

wouldn't help you

You need to be on cable network to check my mail

[honeybee]

We got cable in the office.

Damn slow, but connected all the time.

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[da_silvy]

meh

My cable is resonable fast

512 k/s

Big Pond

Except it's down a fair bit - but i am also connected all the time

[mlewis]

Jeez that's slow -- mine's usually around 728-1100 KB/s