Surely instead of just using email to let users know about comments on
changesets and notes, there should be some sort of notification on the
OSM website as well? There already is a notification in the top right
corner for unread messages - this should be extended to changesets and
notes.
There will always be some people who have problems with emails getting
through to them, so they shouldn't be solely relied upon.
On 13/04/2017 16:53, Andy Townsend wrote:
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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