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Thread poster: Jacques DP
Jacques DP
Jacques DP  Identity Verified
Switzerland
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English to French
Mar 2, 2011

Hello,

It is nice to receive an email to know that someone has responded to your post, especially if your are urgently trying to solve a technical problem. On the other hand, I am not sure I see the benefit of receiving an email stating that you have yourself sent a reply. Presumably you would know that?

Thanks
 
mediamatrix (X)
mediamatrix (X)
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Spanish to English
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Not necessarily. Mar 2, 2011

Jacques DP wrote:
... I am not sure I see the benefit of receiving an email stating that you have yourself sent a reply. Presumably you would know that?


If you're one of the multitude of forum users whose posts have to be vetted, the e-mail notification of your own posts is a useful signal that they have not only been sent but also - and more importantly - made visible to other users.

It would be a retrograde step if the notification system were adapted to filter out all those relating to one's own posts.

MediaMatrix
 
Tomás Cano Binder, BA, CT
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Spain
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Member (2005)
English to Spanish
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I entirely agree! Mar 2, 2011

It is quite a nuisance.
 
Sheila Wilson
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Spain
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Choice? Mar 2, 2011

mediamatrix wrote:
If you're one of the multitude of forum users whose posts have to be vetted, the e-mail notification of your own posts is a useful signal that they have not only been sent but also - and more importantly - made visible to other users.


I agree that it's a nuisance for those of us whose posts are published immediately. I don't know how many times I've received an email and thought "Ah! A reply!", only to find I'm being informed that I've posted!

Perhaps there could either be a choice (Do you wish to receive notification of your posts? Yes/no) or else it could depend on this vetting (with vetting = notification; without vetting = no notification)
 


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