remove email updates for updated threads?

Is it possible to remove email updates for updated threads?
For example, members who had their access to a certain portion of the forum, removed, continue to receive email updates whenever there is a new thread in that section.

Specifically on a global scale, as opposed to going through each removed member's profile.

So um yeah, is there are solution to this issue? Perhaps i need to explain the issue better?

Ah, I didn't spot this. To ensure capturing developer attention for bugs it's better to create a bug ticket or post to the tracker, although usually I do notice bug reports of the forum.

Anyway, it seems to be a bug in v7 and lower. Did you remove group permissions when editing the forum, then find users in those groups had not lost access? That is the bug I just found when reviewing the code.

Here is a fix:

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This does not affect v8 users as the permission checks in v8 happen in real-time, rather than it removing trackings when group/permission changes happen. So nobody should upload the fix to a v8 site.

This fix is not retroactive. You'll need to go and edit the forum again, toggling access on, then edit again, toggling it off. This will make it sense the change and adjust the tracking records.