Thank you! Of course this doesn't help for current users... but this will solve the problem, I think, which is that students don't understand the implications of auto-subscribe, so they don't change that setting, and then they ignore the pop-up in their posts and don't change it there either!
I've made this change on my site, so I'll cross my fingers and see what happens.
General help
How to suppress email to students?
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