On 13/04/2017 16:12, Brian Prangle wrote:

On the subject of fixing things, my block seems to have been precipitated by my not participating in changeset discussions of which I still remain oblivious because apparently the automatic email notification system breaks randomly and it seems I'm one of its victims. I can't fix this and I think it's a problem of at least two years standing.


I've seen a few different ways that emails can "not be delivered"; the good news is that they're all user-fixable.

1) One kind of problem is over-zealous spam filtering by your email provider. A bit of training (regularly checking spam folders and fishing valid mail out) should work here. If it doesn't, change your email provider. With gmail (which your list mail and mine are using) I occasionally have to check the junk folder to fish out non-English emails, but otherwise it's pretty good at spam recognition.

2) Another is that you've tried to change email addresses in the past and not confirmed the "new" address. To fix this go into "My Settings" and change email again, this time making sure that you click on the link within the "Confirm your e-mail address" email.

3) A third problem I've seen (but pretty unlikely to be the case here) is where you'd specified to your email provider that you want email delivered to a particular host and then for whatever reason that becomes impossible (perhaps the target server goes down). Again, fix the problem that prevents email delivery, reconfirm the settings with your email provider and hosts should start retrying again shortly.


In the meantime is there any workround for viewing changeset discussions?


The ubiquitous Pascal Neis has an answer that's actually far better than a workaround. Using the userid for a particular user you can browse to e.g.:

http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-discussion-comments?uid=9065

or you can click through from an entry in e.g. http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-discussions?c=United%20Kingdom .

Best Regards,

Andy

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