# \#howto

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## [How to use footnotes in your posts](https://talk.spare-oom.com/t/how-to-use-footnotes-in-your-posts/20916)

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**Author:** [@dan](https://talk.spare-oom.com/u/dan)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [December 12, 2019, 2:49pm UTC](https://talk.spare-oom.com/t/how-to-use-footnotes-in-your-posts/20916 "2019-12-12T14:49:14Z")

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In writing my post A Calvinist's thoughts on Emeth, I felt like I needed to be able to refer to materials without quoting them in the body. That’s why footnotes were invented, and there’s a plugin for the forum software…

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## [Set the flag icon by your user name](https://talk.spare-oom.com/t/set-the-flag-icon-by-your-user-name/20807)

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**Author:** [@dan](https://talk.spare-oom.com/u/dan)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [December 27, 2019, 8:29pm UTC](https://talk.spare-oom.com/t/set-the-flag-icon-by-your-user-name/20807 "2019-12-27T20:29:34Z")

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You might have noticed that I have a U.S. flag icon next to my user name. You can set a flag for yourself if you like. Here’s how. First, click your user icon in the upper-right corner: Then click on your user name…

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## [How to get forum notifications via Telegram](https://talk.spare-oom.com/t/how-to-get-forum-notifications-via-telegram/20928)

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**Author:** [@dan](https://talk.spare-oom.com/u/dan)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [December 24, 2019, 4:38pm UTC](https://talk.spare-oom.com/t/how-to-get-forum-notifications-via-telegram/20928 "2019-12-24T16:38:57Z")

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I’ve recently installed a forum plugin that will allow you to get notifications using the Telegram messaging system, either instead of or in addition to email. To set up your account to use these, start by sending a mes…

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## [Switching to digest mode](https://talk.spare-oom.com/t/switching-to-digest-mode/20856)

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**Author:** [@dan](https://talk.spare-oom.com/u/dan)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [November 8, 2019, 4:06pm UTC](https://talk.spare-oom.com/t/switching-to-digest-mode/20856 "2019-11-08T16:06:44Z")

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Many of you were using the Yahoo group in digest mode, where you’d receive a daily digest of new messages rather than a separate email for each message. In the migration to Discourse, you’ve been switched to mailing lis…

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## [Enabling or disabling mailing list mode](https://talk.spare-oom.com/t/enabling-or-disabling-mailing-list-mode/20804)

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**Author:** [@dan](https://talk.spare-oom.com/u/dan)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 5, 2019, 10:18am UTC](https://talk.spare-oom.com/t/enabling-or-disabling-mailing-list-mode/20804 "2019-11-05T10:18:03Z")

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Since SpareOom was previously a mailing list, I have mailing list mode enabled by default on this site. This means that, unless you’re online when a message is posted, you’ll get an email copy of any new messages posted…