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In Reply to: "Delete post" glitch. posted by gdg on April 17, 2003 at 16:48:14:
Hmmm, I might be a little confused about part of the question. First, only the person that you respond to directly would get a email and only if they check the auto-email box, so actually there is only one person getting notified. Our system doesn't let people subscribe to a thread or get replies to every post in a thread. It only works for your single post.I was a little confused about the emails getting sent on a delete. I checked the code and that doesn't happen. But you are right in that when you first post, the email is sent immediately. So if you deleted immediately afterward, the person you responded to would get that first post. The only way to get around that would be to queue the emails and send them an hour or two after the new post. I'd guess that most user deletes happen right away due to typos or something like that. That's how I usually use that feature.
Anyway, making a queue is a pain, but not difficult. The question is whether it's worth it. I just looked at General and in the last month, 604 of 4609 posts (13%) used the auto-email replies feature. There were also 119 user deletes since March 22 in General which is almost the same period. Using that 13% as a guideline, you'd have this happening about 16 times a month in General. If that number carried across all the forums, we had 60,337 posts in the last 30 days and this would have happened around 200 times (if General's averages are applicable). It's still only 0.35% of the time, but the number is significant enough to think about adding a queue to likely avoid 99% of the erroneous emails.
Whether we should include the message text or not is a different issue altogether. Personally, I think it's convenient and I wouldn't want to not include it to work around a relatively small problem.
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- Re: "Delete post" glitch. - Rod M 08:07:34 04/19/03 (0)
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