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MSDN Forums Beta

Josh Ledgard (and apparently everyone else BUT me), is excited about the new MSDN Forums Beta.  Unless they’re planning on adding an RSS feed (and I don’t see any indication of that), count me out.

Why?  Simple.  I do everything in Outlook.  I use NewsGator for my RSS Aggregator.  It also can be an NNTP newsreader, but I don’t like how it formats my messages, and it’s awkward to post to NNTP newsgroups with it.  Also, since I use it to post to my blog, and it can only handle one posting plug-in, NNTP is out of the question anyway.  So, you think you’ve caught me, right?  I must use OE to read me news?  Nope.  There are plenty of NNTP Add-ins for Outlook these days.  I heartily recommend two of them, NewsLook and NewsHound.  I wasn’t very impressed with the 1.x releases of NewsHound, but am much more impressed with 2.0.  NewsLook has always been stable for me.  I don’t think you can go wrong with either.

So, anyway, I open up Outlook first thing in the morning, and I leave it open all day long.  The things that I want to see (and some spam) come to me.  I don’t go to them.  If I have to go to a news source outside of Outlook, I won’t go.  Sorry, Josh.

Oh, I realize I haven’t posted here in a while and lots of people have left comments on various posts.  I haven’t responded to those either.  I hope to get caught up soon.  Was switching projects and dealing with a lot of personal stuff, and fell behind.  I’m up for air now and will start posting again.

UPDATE:  scoob points out that I'm blind.  There ARE RSS feeds for every forum.   I'll shut up now.  Thanks, Mr. Ledgard.  :)

Saturday, April 09, 2005 6:52 PM

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# re: MSDN Forums Beta

There are RSS feeds for every forum. Check for the little orange XML tags in the bottom right on the forum view.

http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/rss.aspx?ForumID=53&Mode=0

For example is the feed for the bugs & problems forum. This "mode" shows all new posts in the forum. If you switch the mode = 1 then you get all unanswered questions. So, really, every forum has 2 RSS feeds!

As someone who makes heavy use of RSSBandit I can tell you that the feeds could be better, but we'll improve them over time. Let me know how you'd like them to look. 4/9/2005 9:35 PM | Josh Ledgard

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Thanks for the correction. :-) 4/10/2005 10:06 PM | Josh Ledgard

# re: MSDN Forums Beta

I tried to use the forum. It doesn't work . Are these messages held in limbo somewhere and censored before they become visible? 1/8/2006 1:00 AM | Sahir

# re: MSDN Forums Beta

It doesn't work in both IE6 and FireFox.
Regards
Sahir Shah 1/8/2006 8:07 PM | Sahir

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Are you sure? It works fine for me in both. If there's a "contact us" link somewhere, you might try that and send them your issues. I can provide some e-mail addresses, if necessary. 1/25/2006 5:22 AM | Chris J. Breisch
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