Immediate emails from forums

[poliva]

I very much preferred the way our Catalina 310 forum used to operate, in which I got an email immediately with the full text of the post when someone posted or replied. I have searched this site, but all I can find is the ability only to subscribe to individual threads or to get a summary email that contains the subject line of posts with links to the site.

Neither option works well for me because often I check boating-related email from my phone. Only being able to get instant emails on threads (as opposed to the whole C310 forum) seems silly to me, and just getting the subject summary in the forum emails is insufficient to figure out if I want to read the whole post. It's just time-consuming enough to click through to the site that I rarely do it.

Has anyone figured out a way to get the full text of each post emailed to them, or is my conclusion correct that there isn't any way to do that short of subscribing to every single thread in the forum as it comes through?

 

[Phil Herring]

I'm not sure if you're referring to a setup from before we hosted the forum, but our forums have never contained the text of the post in the email notification.

I'll see if we can do it for this forum if people would prefer that.

ph.

 

[poliva]

Phil, thanks much for the response and for monitoring a boat-specific post.

Yes, the Catalina 310 group used to operate on an email list-serve that was hosted by SailNet.com. So everyone subscribed to the list-serve got to see everyone's posting, and from my perspective it generated much more of a community feel. I tended to read things that other people posted even if I might not have thought it was something I was interested in simply because it was conveniently in my inbox and not on a website that I had to get to by opening a browser.

For instance, I always read Sailingscuttlebutt when it comes into my inbox. By contrast, I don't typically read much at sailboatowners.com because it is more reliant on clicking through to the site. My opinion is not representative of everyone's -- I know some hate getting frequent content-rich emails and prefer to go to a site to read at their liesure. But I'm not one of those people.