I saw this in announcements today. I expected such announcements would come by email to my non-Page-Zone account, where I would be sure to see them.
Again, just because I happened to come by the forum, I saw it. When I am travelling, and on dial-up, I do not come here, because the forum server is often so slow, and I rely on email.
My servers and my computer software can send me email when they have something important to tell me -- and I can even get my house to send me email if the furnace quits -- so why can't Page-Zone seem to get it together to do that simple thing?
I have subscribed to the email announcement list and
was subscribed to the announcements in the forum, but have not been receiving any emails.
So, I checked my forum options and found that I was unsubscribed from the forum announcements and I re-subscribed again, however, I notice that I can have weekly or daily emails from the forum, but not just an email when there is something new.
Do I really need constant emails to tell me there is nothing new? Or wait a week to get an announcement that something big isd up. For example that global change to default email addresses would have really screwed me if I hadn't just happened by here.
Assuming that these announcements are important, let me repeat what I have posted before: these announcements need to go out by email to our fail-safe email addresses, not just be posted here, where many of us may not come across them.
How about it?
It's somewhat comforting to know that I checked a few of the pages that came up on that initial search and they were disabled already. phpbb has a way of dying on its own when the sessions table gets full. The check I ran didn't go to the sites, it crawed the mysql databases and pulled version numbers from those.