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Are Alerts on the fritz again?

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Since 08 APR, when I received a consolidated alert e-mail for 07 APR activity, nothing.

Should I expect to shortly have yet another humongous missive show up?

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You bet

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No Alerts here either.

Wouldn’t mind if much if the My Workspace 404s went away.

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With both problems happening at the same time, it’s real easy to miss something of interest.

Surely

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There is not anything of interest aside from all this.

Or, do you attend with your left hand?

There are indeed tasks best left to my left hand.

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For this, though, I require both.

I think

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You have put your finger on something.

6 am alarm is close at hand.

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Time for me to trek across the river.

This place

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cannot be beat.

But, it can get beat up at times! < eom >

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Ugh.

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Reliable alerts on all discussions to which I’m subscribed would be wonderful. Even back when it was “working”, though, it wasn’t entirely working as evidenced by the occasional alert dump that contained many links to the distant past.

Plan “B”

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Devote your life to this.

Plan A being ? < eom >

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Plan 9

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From Outer Space

Isn’t that the [i]Forbidden Plan[/i]? < eom >

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07 OCT 08, 1.1MB file, …

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with posts dating back to 17 DEC 07.

http://ct.techrepublic.com.com/clicks?t=71675731-09d9d541bd4c8bbd68ad654498ebd072-bf&brand=TECHREPUBLIC&s=5

Oh, great, now My Workspace reports “NO UPDATES.”

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Is this really all just a dream?

Update….

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Still waiting on an update about what is going on with this.

-Tammy [_]3

Thanks :)

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I really do miss the Alerts – that feature was always something I always really liked about TR. Of course, I could live without them, but I would be cool if we could find out whether or not there is any intent on bringing them back. 😀

I always thought the Alerts were of particular use for the Q&A forum, where the thread could fall entirely off the radar, and you’d never know it was still active, unless you bookmark every one and check them a lot.

Even with Alerts activity on old threads can still be missed.

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It’s been the case for several years now that one’s subscription to a thread could be mysteriously changed to “unsubscribed.”

To the best of my knowledge, the cause has never been identified by TR, and, consequently, not fixed.

Yes

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I’ve had dumps, from when alerts were apparently working, which covered large swaths of history. Of course, I’ve no idea what there might have been that never even made it into the sudden alert dumps.

I hadn’t know that a subscription could mysteriously reverse itself. Interesting.

The other thing about not getting alerts, for me, has had an opposing consequence: I’ve had to go and unsubscribe several hundred old threads, one at a time (!), as it wouldn’t occur to me when I did not get any. If I remember correctly, the unsubscribe function was updated so one could modify multiple entries at once, but it may have been a dream. I won’t check on it, as I’m tired of “updating” my information every time I’m required to log in to do any management function.

Can unsubscribe to multiple threads in one fell swoop.

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However, as of the last time I looked, still no way to set your own default preferences, or do mass edits of such.

Like you, I’ve grown so weary of spending so much time managing my subscriptions with such a FUBAR system that I’ve stopped trying.

Did anyone receive….

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..and alerts over the last few hours by chance?

My own have personally hit high gear and arrived all at once going back over the last week.

-Tammy [_]3

Hello????

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Any one out there? ::::::::::::hears echo::::::

-Tammy [_]3

Alert batches

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…there is another thread http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.html?forumID=102&threadID=307273&messageID=3059536 that everyone is exclaiming about getting a weeks worth of alerts at one time – so Yes!

Started by CaptBilly1Eye

Thanks!

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I must have missed that one… when searching through…kicks computer

-Tammy [_]3

Not you, but TR’s “wonderfully useful” Search “function.”

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It’s really not good for more that searching Tags.

Shame of it is that the old one of years ago was way more useful!

I have yet to find what I am looking for

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using TR’s search feature. Completely gave up on it after the latest revamp.
At which point it got even less useful than it already wasn’t.

The one we had in 2000 wasn’t the greatest, but was the best since then.

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Why, back then we could even search a directory of members via a number of keys.

It seems that, with every new roll out, the Search function has been rendered less useful, to the point where it’s now effectively neutered.

I personally prefer…

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Google’s site search – but that hadn’t archived yet, so it didn’t find me anything either.

One of my all time favorites that I LOVE and APPRECIATE (I place them in caps to how grateful I am) is when I get a spam alert to grab my attention.

I can never say Thank you enough for all the eyes on here.

-Tammy [_]3

Well, then, we’ll just have to make sure that you get more.

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Shouldn’t take too long to set up a bunch of new accounts; free e-mail accounts are available aplenty for the taking.

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