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Posted by pandey_m@hotmail.com on December 30, 2000, at 18:01:16
I always got and still get *three* notifications for every followup to a thread containing some *ancient* posts of mine (May 1999 or earlier).
The problem seems to be unique to me - no one else seems to be complaining.
I visited babble after long time and saw the registration requirements, so I registered in order to post this. This would *not* automatically solve the problem for those notifications that are related to old posts - that would be a different (though unusable) handle - the name there was pandey_m; it is pandey_m@hotmail.com here.
These threefold notifications never bothered me before, but now that I have my life much less disorganized, it would nice if the babble administration sorted this out.
Dr. Bob, does this need your personal intervention? Something *I* need to do to fix this?
- Manoj Pandey
Posted by shellie on December 30, 2000, at 20:14:11
In reply to I get *three* notifications for every followup!!!, posted by pandey_m@hotmail.com on December 30, 2000, at 18:01:16
> I always got and still get *three* notifications for every followup to a thread containing some *ancient* posts of mine (May 1999 or earlier).
>
> The problem seems to be unique to me - no one else seems to be complaining.
>
> I visited babble after long time and saw the registration requirements, so I registered in order to post this. This would *not* automatically solve the problem for those notifications that are related to old posts - that would be a different (though unusable) handle - the name there was pandey_m; it is pandey_m@hotmail.com here.
>
> These threefold notifications never bothered me before, but now that I have my life much less disorganized, it would nice if the babble administration sorted this out.
>
> Dr. Bob, does this need your personal intervention? Something *I* need to do to fix this?
>
> - Manoj PandeyIf you posted on the thread three different times,and each time wrote "notify of later follow-ups to this thread", you will get three notifications each time someone posts on that thread. If that's not what happened, then I have nothing useful to offer.
Posted by pandey_m@hotmail.com on December 31, 2000, at 2:49:26
In reply to Re: I get *three* notifications for every followup!!!, posted by shellie on December 30, 2000, at 20:14:11
>If you posted on the thread three different times,and each time wrote "notify of later follow-ups to this thread", you will get three notifications each time someone posts on that thread. If that's not what happened, then I have nothing useful to offer.
Thanks, that is exactly what happened. I wonder if it can be undone ...
Posted by pandey_m@hotmail.com on December 31, 2000, at 3:45:30
In reply to Re: I get *three* notifications for every followup!!!, posted by pandey_m@hotmail.com on December 31, 2000, at 2:49:26
> Thanks, that is exactly what happened. I wonder if it can be undone ...Next time I get the triplicate notifications, I use the option of "not wanting to receive further notifications of postings to that thread" on *two* of them - that should fix it. (If it kills all notifications, then the multiple-notifications-per-post-caused-by-more-than-one-notification-enabled-posts-on-the-same-thread thing is definitely a bug, not a feature!)
Posted by Dr. Bob on January 1, 2001, at 11:18:29
In reply to Re: I get *three* notifications for every followup!!!, posted by shellie on December 30, 2000, at 20:14:11
> > a different (though unusable) handle - the name there was pandey_m;
Your handle before was "pandey_m"? Unusable how?
> If you posted on the thread three different times,and each time wrote "notify of later follow-ups to this thread", you will get three notifications each time someone posts on that thread. If that's not what happened, then I have nothing useful to offer.
That's exactly right, see the 5th paragraph of:
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/faq.html#options
Bob
Posted by pandey_m on January 4, 2001, at 8:21:40
In reply to Re: I get *three* notifications » pandey_m, posted by Dr. Bob on January 1, 2001, at 11:18:29
> Your handle before was "pandey_m"? Unusable how?
Unusable no ways; on the contrary. Thanks Dr Bob for correcting me. I just registered the old handle and am using it (for this post).
(The lapse of reason, on what was a tense day, went:
now one needs a password to post.
the old handle has none associated with it.
ergo, it is unusable.) <sheepish-grin >regards.
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