We've been working with Vanilla to improve a number of things, one of which is 
the amount of information that is included in e-mail notifications. You should 
start to see notifications include the full text of messages soon, if you 
aren't already. :-) 

-- 
Ryan Paul
Xamarin


On Friday, October 5, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Wally McClure wrote:

> if that capability is there, the default option is for email to be turned on, 
> not off.  Also, does this turn on email for all posts to the sight?  If not, 
> then the option is useless.  
> 
> If the example is what is listed below, then the email is still useless.  I 
> am not going to go to a site to see if it is something I am interested in.  
> Do this like linkedin does where I get emails about what is happening with a 
> lot of content.  Technically, linkedin doesn't give me enough content, but it 
> gives me more than what I read below.  I like noisy forums!
> 
> Wally
> 
> PS.  Still love you guys. :-)
> 
> > From: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
> > Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 10:22:33 -0400
> > To: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
> > CC: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]); 
> > [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
> > Subject: Re: [mono-android] [MonoTouch] Introducing the Xamarin Forums
> > 
> > On Oct 5, 2012, at 9:11 AM, Wally McClure <[email protected] 
> > (mailto:[email protected])> wrote:
> > > Web forums don't reach out and touch me.
> > 
> > This one can. From forums.xamarin.com (http://forums.xamarin.com), click 
> > the small "world" icon to the right of your login name ("Notifications" is 
> > the hover-text), then click Notification Preferences. You can then enable 
> > Email notifications for ALL threads and posts (including all replies!) in 
> > the Category Notifications section:
> > 
> > http://www.jprl.com/tmp/x/4eae6326.png 
> > 
> > If you don't see a Category Notifications section, yell profusely at nat. 
> > ;-)
> > 
> > The one downside is that, while you'll get an email whenever something 
> > "interesting" happens, the email isn't particularly useful, e.g.:
> > 
> > > Subject: [xamarin] Cheesebaron commented on Converted FlowLayout.java 
> > > won't process xml paramaters
> > > 
> > > Cheesebaron commented on Converted FlowLayout.java won't process xml 
> > > paramaters
> > > 
> > > Follow the link below to check it out:
> > > http://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/comment/156#Comment_156
> > > 
> > > Have a great day!
> > 
> > So there's a notification + a URL + some information about what the message 
> > is in reply to, but there's no "content". It's still useful, and it's still 
> > spamming my inbox, so I'm "happy" (I'd be happier with actual message 
> > content...). Plus, it makes the forums actually USEFUL to me, as I don't 
> > need to "poll" to see if threads I've replied to have gotten further 
> > responses.
> > 
> > - Jon
> > 
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