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[geeky] Google Groups missing key functionality

I’ve been living inside a couple of Google groups lately, posting questions and waiting for answers. (Which ones? Ruby on Rails: Talk and Active Scaffold: Ruby on Rails plugin)

Much to my surprise and productivity-loss, it’s not possible to request an email alert when someone posts an answer to your question. Odd, this is a oldie-but-goodie feature in many many mailing lists. So I am reduced to checking manually every day or so. (You can see it annoyed me sufficiently to bother writing this :)

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This entry was posted on Friday, September 21st, 2007 at 12:31 am and is filed under Programming, Technology. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “[geeky] Google Groups missing key functionality”

  1. Anurag Says:
    September 21st, 2007 at 2:03 am

    I think that this functionality exists at google groups, bcoz I just got a alert mail frm google groups abt a new reply…
    so just check in again.

  2. alg Says:
    September 21st, 2007 at 10:05 am

    Well, maybe I’m wrong but it seems they have it. :)

    Open the page with the topic thread. Now find the title of the topic (white on blue background at the top of the Discussions area). See the “options” link on the right side? Click on it. Now there’s “Email updates to me” and “Cancel my email updates” (when is already subscribed).

    Is it what you were looking for?

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