The Backward OX

I’d like to ask if this could be stickied.

It may help those posting to threads, who don’t know how, to keep in quick and easy contact with others posting to the same threads.

This can be especially important when you post questions and thought-provoking comments. In such cases, you might like to consider also subscribing to the thread. By doing so, you'll be automatically informed of further posts to that same thread.

If you don’t know how to subscribe –

• Click on Thread Tools, found on the right immediately above the top-most post on any page.
• Then, on the drop-down menu, click on “Subscribe to this Thread”.
• On the next page that opens, click on the down-facing arrow alongside the words “No email notification”.
• Next, on the drop-down menu, select (hopefully) “Instant notification by email”.
• Click “Add Subscription”.

Now, whenever someone else posts to that thread, you will receive immediate email advice of it, with a clickable link that takes you straight to the thread.

And when you tire of it, you can reverse the process by going back to Thread Tools and clicking Unsubscribe.

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smilinghelps

Ox,

I just realized something. You say you're not a 'writer', which is incorrect. Perhaps you are not a 'creative writer' but you make one hell of a public service writer.

This is a great tip and I appreciate you posting it.

Keep up the good work.
(I am not being sarcastic)

smilinghelps

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voidScribe

Another method of "staying in touch" with threads to which you have posted is contained within your "default profile" and results in an automatic subscription to the thread. Go to Control Panel > Edit Options > Default Thread Subscription Mode. The drop down menu provides several choices for notification. My own is set to instant email notification and with Windows Live Messenger running in the background I got a notice just now. Your Subscription List contains an unsubscribe option for those to which you no longer wish to receive notice.

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In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the world's Priest; guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time. (Thomas Carlyle)