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Nicholas Hirst
Aug 8, 2025, 11:44:59 AMAug 8
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If Discourse would send emails or texts to keep everyoje involved and up-to-date it would be a very good resource but, so far as I can see, it only does that through Google as part of the mirror function. Google groups has the advantage of keeping users involved. You have to hunt for Discourse or am I just not using it properly?
Nick Hirst
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Bob Gehrman
Aug 8, 2025, 12:15:31 PMAug 8
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Jonathan Lewit
Aug 8, 2025, 12:17:00 PMAug 8
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Hi Nick,
Discourse was specifically chosen because it gives you several email options, including one that works like Google. In your profile, it lets you opt to receive either digest emails or an email of every post (the way that most people have Google setup). It lets you reply to the email of that posting, or click "Visit Topic" to go directly to the full topic thread. As with Google, you can start a topic by sending an email. This is described in
If anyone finds these steps to select an email option too complicated, I can assist you.
(I know changing systems is a PITA, but I really don't see why getting an email from Google is better than getting an email from Discourse)
Jon
N26C #115 - Inua - Kingston, NY
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Brian Godfrey
Aug 8, 2025, 1:37:18 PMAug 8
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Jon actually explained this to me this very morning. I've been having trouble missing a lot of messages from the Google group which my email hosting service tells me are being filtered out before they even reach my server. (Email doesn't go directly from source to destination. It passes through numerous routers and servers along the way.) Google groups are apparently a common means of distributing spam and viruses. So some of these servers along the way refuse to pass on messages from GG. Apparently one of those must be in the most direct route from Google to me.
Jon says Discourse is apparently trying to avoid this by making the email feature an option which the user must setup after their first login. He would probably have made email distribution the group default to ease the transition. But it is not allowed. That's why it didn't start working in email mode automatically when you first signed up. You have to login one time to set it up, then never again unless you want to. (And while you are at it, set it up so your boat info and home port show up at the top of your postings, then you won't forget to put it in your emails like I do.)
That caution makes sense, and I think they are taking other steps to keep us relatively safe. Google distributes our email addresses along with the postings and I seem to remember that they are also available to anyone reading a message on the group website. There are entire multi-story office buildings full of people mining the net for information like that. It's likely some of the non-participating members here are data miners who slipped past our screeners.
So far the only email addresses I've seen on Discourse are those sent along as user IDs in the mirrored postings when that user doesn't have a Discourse account. Otherwise it appears that they keep our email addresses private. The cat is out of the barn for us on GG - or is the horse out of the bag? I get confused - but it's never too late to start improving our online safety.
Jon says Discourse is apparently trying to avoid this by making the email feature an option which the user must setup after their first login. He would probably have made email distribution the group default to ease the transition. But it is not allowed. That's why it didn't start working in email mode automatically when you first signed up. You have to login one time to set it up, then never again unless you want to. (And while you are at it, set it up so your boat info and home port show up at the top of your postings, then you won't forget to put it in your emails like I do.)
That caution makes sense, and I think they are taking other steps to keep us relatively safe. Google distributes our email addresses along with the postings and I seem to remember that they are also available to anyone reading a message on the group website. There are entire multi-story office buildings full of people mining the net for information like that. It's likely some of the non-participating members here are data miners who slipped past our screeners.
So far the only email addresses I've seen on Discourse are those sent along as user IDs in the mirrored postings when that user doesn't have a Discourse account. Otherwise it appears that they keep our email addresses private. The cat is out of the barn for us on GG - or is the horse out of the bag? I get confused - but it's never too late to start improving our online safety.
-- Brian Godfrey
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