 WebWiz-Bruce wrote:
The reason for it sending a single email telling you there maybe more is so that people come back to your forum to see if there is a reply, and more importantly we found that often people would subscribe to forums or topics and then have no interest in the forum anymore. Rather than coming back to unsubscribe they would simply report the notifications as spam and we found that lots of forums where having their domains blacklisted as belonging to spammers and not able to send email.
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The bigger problem is probably that spam-filters learn to regard the standard notification text as spam, so that when a some users of forum A mark as spam, then the messages from forum B will be tagged.
The proper way to address that is for the admin to write his own notification text in stead of using the standard text. Also, SPF may help a bit. I suggest that you urge the admin to do this at the end of the installation.
Also, the forum system is used for very different sets of users. A forum with a small, closed group of users is unlikely to have many users mark as spam, while the problem will of course be much larger for a big forum with a loose group of users.
I think that the "watch forum for new topics" is unusable in its current state. My suggestion is to let the admin choose whether to enable this function with new mails for every topic, or to disable it entirely. The current in-between confound too many users, who miss topics that they thought they would be reminded of.
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