Can Lubomir or anyone else tell us how to turn off notifications? I could not 
find any obvious way to do it. Thanks.

Patrick




> On Apr 9, 2023, at 3:39 AM, Lubomír Ondračka via INDOLOGY 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Yes, you can indeed sometimes get an email even though you have all 
> notifications turned off. In my experience, this happens in two cases.
>
> First, when Academia.edu adds a new kind of notification, it always sets it 
> as "on" (otherwise we would not know about it). In that case, we need to go 
> into the settings again and turn off this new notification.
>
> Second, Academia.edu occasionally asks selected users for feedback on new 
> planned changes (new features, new look, etc.). I usually give this feedback 
> because I have been using this site for many years (for free) and I consider 
> it fair to contribute to its development.
>
> LO
>
>
> On 09.04.2023 2:11, Patricia Sauthoff via INDOLOGY wrote:
>> I have set my academia account to never email me and have even asked gmail 
>> to send everything there to spam and yet about once a year they sneak into 
>> my inbox and I have to do it all over again.
>> On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 3:44 PM Tracy Coleman <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>    At the very least, we should not speak our thoughts aloud, or keep
>>    our private diaries on our devices. 🙂
>>    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>    *From:* INDOLOGY <[email protected]
>>    <mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of Ananya
>>    Vajpeyi via INDOLOGY <[email protected]
>>    <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>    *Sent:* Saturday, April 8, 2023 3:23 AM
>>    *To:* Claudius Teodorescu <[email protected]
>>    <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>    *Cc:* [email protected]
>>    <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]
>>    <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>    *Subject:* Re: [INDOLOGY] Academia.edu creepy things
>>    This email originated outside Colorado College. Do not click links
>>    or attachments unless you know the content is safe.
>>    I find there’s a lot of leakage between one’s mobile phone calls,
>>    emails, social media accounts and services like Academia / Research
>>    Gate / Dropbox / Interfolio. It’s only a matter of time before our
>>    thoughts too become accessible, predictable and monetizable. In the
>>    event that as academics we can’t go off the grid entirely, perhaps
>>    it’s better to resign oneself to this invasion of the mind snatchers?
>>    AV.
>>    On Saturday, April 8, 2023, Claudius Teodorescu via INDOLOGY
>>    <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>    wrote:
>>        Hi,
>>        If it is the case that Academia app was installed, one can
>>        notice that it collects name and email address (see [1]), which
>>        is sure enough to correlate with information from Indology
>>        archives, which are public.
>>        Maybe deleting the Academia account will help.
>>        Claudius
>>        [1]
>>        
>> https://play.google.com/store/apps/datasafety?id=com.academia.academia&hl=en&gl=US
>>  
>> <https://play.google.com/store/apps/datasafety?id=com.academia.academia&hl=en&gl=US>
>>        On Sat, 8 Apr 2023 at 11:11, Jean Michel DELIRE via INDOLOGY
>>        <[email protected]
>>        <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>            I once uploaded an article to Academia and, since then, I
>>            receive notifications every day that 'people' are reading
>>            this article and other papers of mine. Usually, I don't know
>>            these 'people', which could even be a certain
>>            CuneiformComposite (the name of a font), but some are known
>>            to me and appear in my emails.I also receive notifications
>>            that my name has been quoted in such or such article (some
>>            having nothing to do with my work, as very specialized
>>            medical articles by instance), but it is impossible to know
>>            more, without paying. This seems to be a very erratic
>>            process, probably led by a silly robot.
>>            Best,
>>            *Jean Michel DELIRE*
>>            /*Lecturer on History of mathematics - IHEB (ULB)*/
>>            /*Lecturer on *//*Science and civilisation of India -
>>            Sanskrit Texts - IHEB (ULB)*/
>>            /*Member of the Centre National d'Histoire des Sciences
>>            (KBR, Bruxelles)*/
>>            /*Member of the Société Asiatique (Paris)*/
>>            /*Member of the International Association of Sanskrit Studies*/
>>            Le ven. 7 avr. 2023 à 23:38, Dominik Wujastyk via INDOLOGY
>>            <[email protected]
>>            <mailto:[email protected]>> a écrit :
>>                That's quite suspicious.  Perhaps Kaul had a burst of
>>                online business and posted to INDOLOGY and /at the same
>>                time/ uploaded the review to Academia, which triggered
>>                your notification.  We can't tell from Academia when
>>                papers are uploaded, but the review has 317 views, which
>>                suggests it was uploaded a while ago, not recently.  So
>>                that explanation is probably wrong.
>>                How could Academia possibly be getting information about
>>                your incoming emails?  What mechanism can we imagine?         
>>         Emails don't deposit cookies, so cross-site cookies
>>                aren't the pathway.  If Academia is harvesting from the
>>                INDOLOGY archive, which is technically possible, then
>>                *everyone* would get the Kaul notification or similar
>>                ones, not just you.  It's hard to see how this might
>>                work.  Without a plausible mechanism, I'm staying with
>>                coincidence.
>>                But I have all my Academia notifications turned off, so
>>                I never get anything from them.  If I want to know their
>>                stuff, I look at the website.
>>                Best,
>>                Dominik
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>> Patricia Sauthoff, PhD (she/they)
>> Assistant Lecturer
>> Department of History, Classics, and Religion
>> University of Alberta
>> Edmonton, Canada
>> (I will respond as quickly as I can. In the meantime, here is a pdf 
>> <https://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/med-guided2.pdf> of some of my favorite 
>> simple guided meditations.)
>> Author: Illness and Immortality: mantra, maṇḍala, and meditation in the 
>> Netra Tantra 
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