Re^3: Can I get emails when somebody responds to my PerlMonks post?

[chacham]

With JS, the tab does not need to be in front of you. You can be doing something else when an alert of some form of message pops up.

[LanX]

Ah, I see.

FWIW, you can also poll the private message xml ticker ticker, be it in JS or anything else.

That's what I get (excerpt)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252"?>
<CHATTER>
<INFO site="http://perlmonks.org/" sitename="PerlMonks" min_poll_secon
+ds="30" archived="no" max_recs="20" foruser="LanX" foruser_id="708738
+" hard_limit="20" style="" gentimeGMT="2017-10-19 15:54:37">
Rendered by the Private Message XML Ticker</INFO>
...
<message user_id="113" author="root" time="2017-10-19 11:31:31" messag
+e_id="542606201" status="active">
You've got a reply to [id://1201620] from [id://934209] at [id://12016
+84]</message>
</CHATTER>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252"?>
<CHATTER>
<INFO site="http://perlmonks.org/" sitename="PerlMonks" min_poll_seconds="30" archived="no" max_recs="20" foruser="LanX" foruser_id="708738" hard_limit="20" style="" gentimeGMT="2017-10-19 15:54:37">
Rendered by the Private Message XML Ticker</INFO>
...
<message user_id="113" author="root" time="2017-10-19 11:31:31" message_id="542606201" status="active">
You've got a reply to Re^2: Can I get emails when somebody responds to my PerlMonks post? from chacham at Re^3: Can I get emails when somebody responds to my PerlMonks post?</message>
</CHATTER>

[chacham]

Cool. Now we just need to write it. :)