Dear Monks,
I don't know whether this has been a subject before, but using Search and Super Search I couldn't find an answer to it (btw: is there any way of 'and'-ing or 'or'-ing search terms together?).

I used to spend much time in antother community site where there was the possibility to click a little email-reminder button when posting any message, that would send mail whenever there was a reply to that message.
I considered that extremely useful, particularly when it was thread that was some days old, because I usually just check newer messages. Yet, I'd like to know when there was a reply to any posting.

I wonder if it would be possible for the Monks to have this, too. I doesn't need to be a mail acutally, maybe have a node which collects new answers or the like; this would need Deeper Thinking(tm)

What do you think?
Regards
Stefan K 

$dom = "skamphausen.de";   ##   May The Open Source Be With You!
$Mail = "mail@$dom;  $Url = "http://www.$dom";

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Re: Mail-Reminder in Thread
by davorg (Chancellor) on Jan 25, 2001 at 15:20 UTC

    On your 'User Settings' page, there is an option called '/msg me when a reply to one of my posts arrives'. That might do what you want.

    --
    <http://www.dave.org.uk>

    "Perl makes the fun jobs fun
    and the boring jobs bearable" - me

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      OK,
      you got me ;-) Never looked at that option with my thinking switched to ON, it seems. Thanks for pointing me there!
      Will that be a personal message in the chatterbox then?
      Regards
      Stefan K 
      $dom = "skamphausen.de";   ##   May The Open Source Be With You!
$Mail = "mail@$dom;  $Url = "http://www.$dom";

      [download]
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        Indeed it will be a private message on the chatterbox.

        However if you really want to recive an email then I would suggest that you parse the contents of private message xml ticker with a tool such as XML::Simple. Run that program from cron (or eqivilent) and when items occur, send an email to yourself using one of the cpan Mail modules or by piping to '/usr/sbin/sendmail' on unix systems.

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