JA et.al.
Your suggestions about emails for new topics poasted can be accomplished, I think, by opening a board like Electronics and on the 'tools' line there is a button labelled Notify which, again I think, will generate emails for new poasts, not just replies.
Bill
I just received an email notification for the new poast in the Electronics board, which tells me the suggestion above works!
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