Meatyfool wrote:Don't subscribe bookmark instead you won't get the emails
Thanks, but actually the best solution (for me - YMMV) that I've found so far puts together hints from you and others plus some investigations of my own, and it turns out to involve both subscribing and bookmarking. Here it is in case it's useful to others:
* Go to the forums which you want to read and subscribe to each of them using the link at the bottom of the page - the equivalent of setting them up as "favourite boards".
* Within each of those forums, go into each topic you want to read and bookmark it, using the "spanner" menu before or after the posts. This is a sort of equivalent to setting them
not to be "ignored threads".
* Go into the User Control Panel (from the menu for your user name at the top right), select the "Board preferences" tab and then "Edit notification options" from the left hand menu. Within it, tick notification, email or both (according to taste) for "Someone creates a topic in a forum to which you are subscribed": this makes certain you know that new topics have been created in those forums and can bookmark them - basically, with topics being the equivalent of threads, it's a bit unfortunate that they're created as "ignored threads", but this tells you that that has happened so that you can bookmark them to "unignore" them. This is a bit clunky, but IMHO not unbearably so, at least so far...
* Untick the two "Someone replies ..." options (unless you actually want to be bombarded with notifications / emails caused by those events), and tick or untick the "Someone quotes" option and the one about moderators according to taste.
* When you want to catch up on unread posts in the topics you're interested in,
don't try to do it from the main "Board index" page. Instead go to the User Control Panel again, choosing the "Overview" tab and the "Manage bookmarks" menu item. That gives you a list of your bookmarked topics, each with a circle to its left. The ones with red circles are the ones with unread posts, and clicking on the red circle takes you to its unread posts (and the unread posts are distinguished from the read ones by the small marker at the left end of the author line being red rather than white).
Gengulphus