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Pay attention to the average number of daily posts! If traic in the forum is
light (less than a few dozen messages a day) you may wish to monitor only
this front page. If the traic is heavier, you may wish to pick a section or
sections in that discussion forum that are most relevant to your interest and
then monitor those using a page monitor. If you're very interested in sin-
gular topics, you can choose to be notiied of topic updates via e-mail—just
look for the “Click to receive email notiication of replies” link. You don't
have to be registered on the board in which you're interested to get notiica-
tion of updates to topics. (his can lead to a lot of e-mail but we discuss that
in the next chapter.)
As you can see, searching tags and online conversations is quite diferent
from searching full-text search engines. But if you take the opportunity to
use these resources for general searching, you'll add a whole new dimension
to your information trapping.
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