Email Notification recipients unclear when PM is sent to multiple users

[tobiaseigen]

This has come up now in my community now that we are starting to make more active use of messaging, especially group messaging. I like all of these suggestions but would love to see something happen as soon as possible to ensure happy uptake of messaging. So can we get some low hanging fruit solution in place?

So far it seems to be:

• @DeanMarkTaylor suggested adding names at the top of the message
• @sam suggested adding names as email recipients (a big cc list)
• @scombs suggested replicating the recipients web view at the bottom of the email

Here’s another idea. In the Group message notification email: change "Visit Topic" to "Visit Message" I suggested the following which @codinghorror seemed to like:

@tobiaseigen

What this makes me realize is that it would be handy to be informed in the email why you were notified about a given topic or message. E.g. as relevant one of the following would be added ahead of the “To stop receiving…” text.

You received this because you were mentioned.
You received this because your @foo group was mentioned.
You received this because you are watching #foo category.
You received this because you are watching #foo tag.

I don’t especially like the idea of making this text longer so maybe there’s another way to indicate context, e.g. by adding it to the subject line or heading.