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I agree.
There's a fine line between spam and helpful notification, but without the notification how do people know that something has happened with something that they care about?
For example, I'm here replying to this so quickly because I got an email notification.
And I agree, notifications should be multi-faceted and user-configurable. As they are on LFGSS (subscribed threads).
The basic offering needs to be "notifications based on actions I care about, and depending on how much I care either send me an email immediately or just update a web page that I can check when I login".
We're supporting both of those, but as yet haven't either in place... just the skeleton for them.
For an idea of how much emails work:
LFGSS sends approx' 1,400 emails per day.
Of which; none are marked as spam, 2/3 are opened, and 1/3 (of the total, 1/2 of the opened) are clicked and followed.
These are things like "You've got a PM", "There has been a reply to a thread you posted in".
Email has massive traction, but it's a user preference... some people hate it, some love it and can't do without it. It's very much a preference where the big question is whether you care about the sender (the community site/topic) and do you care about the content (the message itself).
So it has to exist in some form.