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Figure 9.11 publicly readable groups have rss feeds available at Yahoo groups.
hese are full feeds of all the posts. I recommend using these feeds in con-
junction with something like FeedDigest or FeedShake to extract just the
words in which you're interested. We talked about those tools way back in
the early chapters.
When groups are not public and are for members only, then you have to do
something else. I recommend using a page monitor. It's not as streamlined
as using an RSS feed, but you won't have a lot of options here. You can
either monitor the front page, which shows you the latest posts (this is okay
if you're monitoring a not-particularly-busy group), or you can monitor a
page of search results for that particular group (necessary if you're monitor-
ing a very busy group). If you want to monitor a page of the latest posts of
a group that requires registration before you can read the archives, check
your page monitor to make sure you can specify a login name and password
when monitoring that page. Most page monitors ofer this option.
hough your methods of inding and monitoring information on Yahoo
Groups will be diferent than what you use with Google Groups, the kinds
of things you'll be monitoring should be the same, as we talked about ear-
lier in the chapter. Product names, condition names, model numbers, error
messages. Continue the tactic of creating questions relating to your topic,