Title: Understanding Subscribers
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Understanding Subscribers

 *  Resolved [brucekaiser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brucekaiser/)
 * (@brucekaiser)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/understanding-subscribers/)
 * I can’t seem to find this stated clearly in the documentation so can someone 
   confirm my understanding?
    Unconfirmed Public Users ONLY receive emails that 
   are “confirmation requests” and/or “confirmation reminders”. Confirmed Public
   Users receive “post notifications” from all categories except Excluded Categories,
   and have NO additional control over categories? Registered Users (registered 
   with the website) receive “post notifications” from Compulsory Categories (by
   default, but may change this), and NOT from Excluded Categories (but may change
   this also, if admin allows). Is this correct or am I missing something?
 * Thanks.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/subscribe2/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/subscribe2/)

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 *  [Matt Robinson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattyrob/)
 * (@mattyrob)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/understanding-subscribers/#post-5405498)
 * [@brucekaiser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brucekaiser/),
 * You’ve pretty much got it; a few corrections to the above though:
 * Registered subscribers get notifications from their subscribed categories. Compulsory
   categories will always generate an email to all Registered Subscribers and individually
   they cannot opt out of this. They don’t get emails for excluded categories unless
   that option to allow them to over ride this is enabled (this would be a good 
   way of encouraging Public Subscribers to Register and gain access to more email
   content for example).
 * [http://subscribe2.wordpress.com/support/faqs/#16](http://subscribe2.wordpress.com/support/faqs/#16)

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 * Last reply from: [Matt Robinson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattyrob/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/understanding-subscribers/#post-5405498)
 * Status: resolved