Recommendation for forum emails

A small bit of the content of forum posts in new post notification emails that come from the forum would be helpful in determining in advance if I would like to visit the site to read in-depth information. 

I always like to visit the site, but -- time is presently the commodity I value most.

I could agree but this tends to attract users to reply to the emails rather than clicking the links.

I agree with both sides on this one.  

@rob - A small bit of the content of forum posts in new post notification emails that come from the forum would be helpful...

I, too, would like to see a snippet in the email.  Too many times I've gotten into the forum only to discover that it doesn't pertain to me.  I'm sure this happens to everyone, so this would be a great time saver for all your users.

@tim - I could agree but this tends to attract users to reply to the emails rather than clicking the links.

For those people who would click reply, the forum emails could be sent from a do-not-reply address with an autoresponder that would send an email back to them instructing them to login to the forum to reply.  At present, if people reply to the forum emails, it looks like they get sent to you and then you have to deal with them.  So this could save you time, as well.

There you go.  Problem solved for everybody!  : )

What do you think?

Marc