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I get a lot of these. Used to automatically think fault of Growl, but I think it could all sorts culprits? Current nuisance see distracting me are:
recovery unmounted
ip address update
mac hd @snapp mounted
hollywood reporter
washington post

How do i get rid of all these coming up. Thanks!!

I've tried lot of things, unchecking everything in notifications, nothing works.