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Fi · Unfettered Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 444 Location: London

[BUG] Email alerts

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Wishi-san

That is very weird. Has anyone else noticed their notifications being ill-named or is it just Fi screwing up the system ( Wink

)?

**Posted:** Fri Aug 13, 2004 7:18 am

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Giskard

So there are actually people using that option? Smile

It would sure be fun to have that enable on the General forum from Haunted Apiary Cool

**Posted:** Fri Aug 13, 2004 8:40 am

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**Posted:** Fri Aug 13, 2004 10:11 am

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Fi · Unfettered Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 444 Location: London

I reckon it'd be cool to have a kind of newsletter with all the days posts from a certain forum in a nice and clearly laid out email. It'd take less time to read them then logging on here. Although maybe you're right about the bees Cather!

fI

**Posted:** Fri Aug 13, 2004 10:30 am

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simono: Master Chief needs free energy too you know.

catherwood

**Posted:** Fri Aug 13, 2004 10:35 am

Fi · Unfettered Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 444 Location: London

Ha!

Doh!

My bad conf00sion Wink

Just writing another bug report now which features you (in a minor supporting role!)

Fi

**Posted:** Fri Aug 13, 2004 10:59 am

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fireball

**Posted:** Fri Aug 13, 2004 11:38 am

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aiesha_anonymous · Veteran Joined: 18 Jun 2003 Posts: 101 Location: Australia

**Posted:** Sun Aug 15, 2004 12:18 am

vpisteve

I got an order confirmation for Ozy from the Disney Store. Hmm.

**Posted:** Sun Aug 15, 2004 2:03 am

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Was it that inflatable Minnie doll? Because if so, I can TOTALLY explain. Razz

**Posted:** Sun Aug 15, 2004 12:06 pm

greywolf · Decorated Joined: 27 Sep 2002 Posts: 217 Location: Florida

**Posted:** Sun Aug 15, 2004 9:25 pm

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Dorkmaster

It figures... the one (and I mean ONE) thing that I DON'T write about, but thought about, in like the last week, and it's the one thing that I'm not experiencing alone! Cool

But yes, I've gotten "post watching" emails that say "Hello, X"
(where X=anyone+their mother)

And while I've never gotten one from a thread I didn't post in, I've gotten them sometimes from threads I hadn't posted in for a long while... Hope it helps!

**Posted:** Mon Aug 16, 2004 4:46 pm

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clamatius · Decorated Joined: 24 Jul 2004 Posts: 209 Location: Seattle

I get this bug too.

I have seen similar problems to this in online systems before where it's a threading issue. In this example, there may be a shared variable for the email name over multiple threads. Different threads are trying to send the email and the second thread comes in and overwrites the name data in the first email that would have been sent had the threads executed consecutively instead of concurrently.

I hope that makes sense.

**Posted:** Wed Aug 18, 2004 4:47 pm

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SpaceBass

Just to clarify, at the bottom of these emails, does it say you're receiving it because you are watching a topic or because you are watching a forum? Or both? Also, do all the wrong usernames happen to be moderators by any chance?

**Posted:** Wed Aug 18, 2004 10:30 pm

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