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ozij wrote:

SleepPunk wrote:We have personalized the email notifications with screen names (example of body of email: Hello SleepPunk, you have received a...) to make interaction with the site more warm and friendly.

I prefer warm and friendly interactions to come from warm and friendly human beings - there is enough warmth and friendliness in the human interactions on this forum to have kept me here for more than 3 years.

I do not need - nor want - pseudo "personalized" notifications from what I had supposed was an impersonal robot that did not use my screen name in connection with my email. I find that kind of fake friendliness disconcerting. I was obviously wrong in what I understood when reading the registration screen info 3 years ago.

feeling_better wrote:More things are connected together and sent around in emails or other forms, greater the chance for somebody to get that type of information.

Exactly.
Furthermore, by connecting screen names to users email addresses, cpap.com has created at least one more connection in their system between usernames and screen names - and we have no idea how many users use the cpap@cpaptalk user account, know its password, deal with its address list, etc.

As for adding the PM text: I now realize that one of these days, when the database gets messed up, the text of my PM might arrive in somebody else's email. I will certainly keep that in mind. A person's ability to read my PM is no longer dependent on their ability to log in to cpaptalk, only on their ability (or somebody else's) to log in to their email.

Personally, nobody but me has access to my email - but - passwords can be cracked, email databases moved from one place to another. Many people - especially those older than 40 have younger relatives helping them with their email - and other computer related chores. Why should anyone's grandchild, say: "Huh? Where'd you get that nickname from?"

O.

SleepPunk wrote:Hi ozij,

All duly noted and moved up the chain for discussions and decisions. Does anyone else on the board have an opinion, one way or the other, about this particular matter?

SleepPunk wrote:For those who requested this info...I believe we will make a legend and place it somewhere at the bottom of the main page soon, or possibly in the FAQ section. Hope this helps.

This is a summary of the topic icons and what they mean.

Two general points
- Red icons are unread items, blue/grey are read
- A star on any thread means you have posted in it
- A member's avatar just means the original poster has an avatar and we wanted to display that instead of the symbols below to add some personality to the main page.

For example:
- Read topic (No one has posted to this topic since your last visit.)
- Unread topic (Someone has posted to this topic since your last visit.)
- Read topic that you have posted in
- Unread topic that you have posted in

Other icon definitions (the blue=read / red=unread rule applies to these as well)
- Announcements from the administrators.
- Sticky thread
- Hot topic
- Locked thread
- Moved thread
- Forum with subforums
- Link forum

More icons:
- Attachment
- Go to last post in the thread
- Go to last unread post in the thread
- Subforum read
- Subforum unread

feeling_better wrote:

SleepPunk wrote:For those who requested this info...I believe we will make a legend and place it somewhere at the bottom of the main page soon, or possibly in the FAQ section. Hope this helps.

Excellent idea! Thank you!

SleepPunk wrote:For those who requested this info...I believe we will make a legend and place it somewhere at the bottom of the main page soon, or possibly in the FAQ section. Hope this helps.

This is a summary of the topic icons and what they mean.