This is just a PSA to remind you that we use the email you have attached to your account to answer contact emails from you (unless you change it manually in the email field on the contact page), and sometimes to get in touch with you if there is a problem with a post or comment, so please make sure that it is a working address. You can change or update your email in your profile preferences under "Contact Preferences," as well as choose whether you want it to be visible to other users, and if you want Mefi mail forwarded to your email.
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posted by taz
on Jan 18, 2013 -
39 comments
Feature request: opt-in email or MeMail when a meetup in your city is proposed.
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posted by gen
on Nov 4, 2012 -
13 comments
Has there ever been talk about a "
mail this question to a friend" thingy for askmefi? I frequently see a question and know someone who would know the answer but completely forget to actually tell them about the post.
This would probably also work on the blue... "
mail this post to a friend." I never use those on sites, but I have that on my blog and I'm always surprised how much it gets used. Maybe put it up there under the "Share:" links?
posted by Blake
on Dec 15, 2011 -
42 comments
I'd like it if I had the option to also send a copy of the MeFi mails I
send to my main email account as well as those I receive.
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posted by nanojath
on Sep 26, 2011 -
15 comments
Hey, whenever you can, why not do what Slarty Bartfast did
here and shoot an email to the subject of your post (if it makes sense)? Because it's so easy, and it's cool when The Guy In The Link stops by. That's it, thanks!
posted by stupidsexyFlanders
on Feb 18, 2011 -
53 comments
Is it possible for me to get new posts with a particular tag sent directly to my email?
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posted by skwt
on Dec 3, 2010 -
11 comments
Pony? What about email (or MeMail) notifications when comments are entered in an AskMe thread?
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posted by Drasher
on Mar 4, 2010 -
30 comments
Can you help me find that really great car-buying AskMe comment? It involved someone e-mailing multiple dealers and walking in with the price he/she was going to pay.
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posted by IndigoRain
on Jun 16, 2009 -
10 comments
Why do I have to have a verified email address to opt out of mefi mail reminders? It wasn't a huge pain to verify it, but it doesn't make sense that I had to. It should have nothing to do with my email.
posted by empath
on Nov 11, 2008 -
32 comments
Not cool - using your MeFi account to harvest email addresses of people who you disagree with, so you can sign them up to mailing lists? That's gotta be out of order, right?
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posted by rodgerd
on Oct 30, 2008 -
93 comments
New posting automatic form letter: "From mathowie - Your MetaFilter Post - Message:Your post has been added to MetaFilter. Here are the details: Please contact us with any problems: http://www.metafilter.com/contact/"
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posted by nickyskye
on Oct 27, 2008 -
98 comments
Blazecock Pileon says " I'm not playing your games. Own your comments. Take it to Metatalk if you don't like it. And that's the last I will hear from you, because you're going to be ignored."
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posted by three blind mice
on Sep 24, 2008 -
322 comments
Can I subscribe to a specific FPP in order to get email notification when a new comment appears?
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posted by tzikeh
on Jul 14, 2008 -
13 comments
Is there a protocol regarding emailing another mefite who lives very nearby? Walking distance as per that little google map thingy on our profile page. Since she is a she and I am a he -albeit a very, very old one and happily married for fifty years, I still would not wish to intrude where I maybe should not. What say you all? Is it ok to email?
posted by notreally
on May 29, 2008 -
55 comments
I tried to gift a membership to a minor internet celebrity, but I got the message "It appears your friend already has an account, as this email address is in use". Really? That's cool -- now who is it? Can there be a way of entering in an address and getting a username back, so I can add that account to my contacts?
posted by ewagoner
on Feb 22, 2008 -
74 comments
Mefi Mail request: Any chance we could get a couple of minor features regarding the status of our sent and received messages?
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posted by item
on Nov 10, 2007 -
26 comments
So like reddit sends me an email when someone responds to my postings. Is it possible to engineer the system here in a similar fashion to email me when someone posts an answer to my Ask Metafilter question? I think it could make it a more valuable service. Literally a golden cow. Like Baal.
posted by four panels
on Nov 2, 2007 -
31 comments
I can't see any email addresses in member profiles. What is happening?
posted by unknowncommand
on Oct 16, 2007 -
3 comments
I got a "Your MetaFilter password request" e-mail but I didn't request my password?
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posted by zaphod
on Sep 13, 2007 -
27 comments
The recent
Wendell kurfuffle brought to mind a very simple rule of email that is quite easy to remember and it is amazing (and annoying) that so few people actually use it. So I share it here in the hopes that anyone emailing more than one MeFi user will use this technique, in the future:
If you ever want to email more than one MeFi user*: send the email to yourself and put the list of people you are sending to in the Bcc field. Any moron recipient who hits "Reply to All" will send their reply to an audience of ONE (the original sender) and (additionally) no recipient can see the other recipients' email addresses.
This is simple, basic stuff.
*Obviously this applies to any email you send to more than one recipient, not just MeFi users.
posted by spock
on Jul 11, 2007 -
68 comments
wendell sent a mass email to like 1000 users and so sorry I responded. I've also disinclined my email address.
posted by four panels
on Jun 21, 2007 -
8 comments
So Wendell apparently harvested a bunch of Mefite email addresses and sent a pointless message to all of them, and a herd of the recipients went off on a "reply all" binge with equally pointless replies. Now I have a mailbox full of crap. This is without a doubt the lamest, most wrong-headed bullshit move I have experienced here. Thanks for nothing, jerx.
posted by Kirth Gerson
on Jun 15, 2007 -
296 comments
Please to put an email in your profile? Most of us don't bite, really. Okay, sure - if your "persona" here is attack-nerd or something, and you're sure you'll get spammed with hate mail, leave it out, but if you're a regular user who likes to participate, can't you at least set up a throwaway webmail address (in gmail, for one, you can create a filter to forward your messages to your regular mail, and you won't even have to log in to your account to check if you have any new messages).
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posted by taz
on Jun 15, 2007 -
167 comments
What if the etiquette/policy category didn't exist on MeTa? More within....
posted by wheelieman
on Dec 20, 2006 -
121 comments
So I
solved this problem, based on the help given by a few members, who I'm very grateful for. But was it really necessary for a load of people to come into the thread in the meantime and tell me that I didn't know what I was talking about?
posted by reklaw
on Oct 26, 2006 -
175 comments
Could people please put their email addresses or some other contact method in their profile? Especially if you post a question? Please? There's times when I'd like to answer an AskMe question or MeFi thread that got deleted as chatfilter,
(UbuRoivas, I'm looking at you!) but can't.
posted by SpecialK
on Aug 15, 2006 -
58 comments
How do I change my email in my profile?
posted by zia
on May 5, 2006 -
14 comments
They want someone with an American bank account.
So how does this scam work?
posted by Ken McE
on Feb 24, 2006 -
4 comments
Hey Matt, what happened to Alumshubby's death threat email post to The Jesse Helms? It was here, it got closed, and then it disappeared. Did you uncover some info to lead you to believe it was fake, and you removed it to keep from besmirching alumshubby's good name? Cause if so, say something, cause he still seems like a death threat issuing prick otherwise.
posted by jonson
on Feb 13, 2006 -
18 comments
It's good to see you. You're looking well, but I'm curious about something. Why don't
you put your email address in your profile? It's just something I've been wondering about so I thought I'd raise it as a way of encouraging people to add their email to their profile page - go on, nothing bad will happen. In fact, good things might just follow.
posted by peacay
on Jan 9, 2006 -
100 comments
Can't save Preferences unless "Show email on profile page?" is checked; get error "Element USER_EMAIL_PREF is undefined in FORM."
posted by staggernation
on Dec 7, 2005 -
3 comments
AskMeFi email notification?
I understand for threads that get a lot of replies - an email per response is way too much, and would be more of a hassle than it's worth.
What about a nightly cron job that notifies AskMeFi posters who have checked an "email me to let me know about new replies" box a notice that X number of replies have been posted to their thread? The box could be unchecked by default, of course.
I've found that sometimes, AskMeFi threads that are days old end up getting responses from bored folks who scroll through several pages, so I think this would be useful.
posted by twiggy
on Nov 25, 2005 -
11 comments
I want to change my profile to include my email address. But I can't even see my own profile. I'm still painfully new to all of this. Please help.
posted by bilabial
on Nov 14, 2005 -
8 comments
Would it be appropriate it use askmefi as a way of finding other people who have knowledge about a specific topic and would be willing to share it via e-mail? If not, is there another forum with this purpose?
For example, would it be appropriate to post the following (note that I'd be most interested in the last sentence:
I am interested in learning more about X-- specifically, I am wondering if XYZ. Anyone out there care to share insight specific to my question about XYZ? Know of good leads to learn more about X and XYZ? Anyone one up for a more in-depth e-mail correspondence regarding you experience and opinions?
posted by lalalana
on Nov 7, 2005 -
8 comments
In an askme post,
I said I'd be willing to set up a mailing list for shy MeFi members.
posted by grumblebee
on Jun 13, 2005 -
8 comments
Ask Metafilter: would be great if members posting questions could receive email alerts on new answers to their questions.
(please excuse me if this exists. I searched and couldn't find it)
posted by mirileh
on Jun 7, 2005 -
12 comments
Last week I posted a music question to AskMe. To be honest, I really, really wanted one particular user to answer (he/she did) because I know from their previous answers that they know a lot about recording/playing music. What I want to know, though, is whether it would have been considered bad etiquette to email this person directly, after hunting down their address via the home URL on their profile. Basically - an unsolicited email. If you received such an email from a fellow Mefite would you consider it spamming and/or somehow taking advantage of the "community"?
posted by bunglin jones
on Mar 25, 2005 -
34 comments
[My Little Pony] There seems to be a little concern now that registrations are open again, that for the bargain price of five dollars a spammer could get access to a large number of e-mail addresses. Could I suggest that e-mail addresses are hidden and a posting form put in it's place so we can remain easily contactable?
posted by dodgygeezer
on Mar 13, 2005 -
35 comments
Matt is anything automatic ever done with the email field in our profiles? [the more she is inside]
posted by Mitheral
on Mar 11, 2005 -
9 comments
It's really frustrating that so many Mefi people don't have e-mail addresses posted on their member page. In fact, it's really inexcusable given the ability to obtain free secondary and terciary e-mail addresses.
While no one can be forced to read their e-mail (or have the Mefi address mails forwarded to a primary one, I think Matt should require an e-mail address to be posted.
posted by ParisParamus
on Feb 16, 2005 -
87 comments
What's up with the profile pages? Every one I check has this at the bottom left of the page:
email for an art project
posted by The God Complex
on Dec 22, 2004 -
34 comments
