At my job (like many others i am sure), i wear many hats, and sometimes go a number of weeks without using llblgen. It would be nice to stay up on things durring those times, and i think the best way would be see whats getting posted in the forums. I just don't have time to come here every day and read up on whats been posted. Does this forum support email based where i can get all the posts sent to my email?

If not, does anyone else see this as useful, and if so maybe we can talk to frans about setting this up some how.

Jeff wrote:

I just don't have time to come here every day and read up on whats been posted. Does this forum support email based where i can get all the posts sent to my email?

If not, does anyone else see this as useful, and if so maybe we can talk to frans about setting this up some how.

I personally use SharpReader and attach to the RSS feeds. I really prefer the pull vs. push approach that RSS aggregation takes vs email...

Just my .02.

I added RSS feeds for this, which are IMHO a more convenient way to get up to date with the recent postings, I agree with hlesesne.

I personally use Omea reader 1.0.3 (the free one) but there are others which offer also a decent RSS experience like RSS bandit or sharpreader. If you just subscribe to the feeds you'd like and for example fetch the feeds once a day, you'll be up to date and you don't have to keep the postings in an email store

Looking into RSS readers now. I must admit i am new to rss feeds. how often do they get created? do the rss reader go and get them daily, hourly, etc.. is this configurable? i guess the question i am asking is will i only get updated once a day with a big long list of all the posts for that day? if so, what time do yours get generated?

thanks.

My personal favorite for RSS reading is NewsGator's Outlook extension. The RSS feeds appear right in Outlook 2003 just like any other piece of mail, and are stored in the PST (or is it OST?) on the local machine, so you can get online, download, disconnect and read at your leisure, all within Outlook. Great for traveling. Sweetness.

However, if you insist on having RSS feeds actually emailed to you, Newsgator also offers that as a service, $3.95 USD a month.

http://www.newsgator.com/outlook.aspx

EDIT: Hmm. They used to sell the Outlook version outright, but now it's subscription based. Guess since I bought it they aren't pinging me for the monthly cost. Not sure you can still get it for a one-time purchase. Dogs!

aka, market opportunity...

Jeff wrote:

Looking into RSS readers now. I must admit i am new to rss feeds. how often do they get created? do the rss reader go and get them daily, hourly, etc.. is this configurable? i guess the question i am asking is will i only get updated once a day with a big long list of all the posts for that day? if so, what time do yours get generated? thanks.

RSS Feeds are blocks of XML send to the requestor like blocks of HTML are send to requestor if you request a page. So if you click on an rss icon in your browser, you'll get the XML.

The feeds are cached in ASP.NET, and removed from the cache if a thread in a forum changes. THe next request for the feed then recreates it and caches it again.

So if you update once per half hour, you'll get more frequently new updates. Though as requesting a feed every half hour will pull hte complete feed (all latest 50 messages) block, it is recommended (to keep bandwidth low) to refresh the feeds every 2 hours or so. BUt if you just want to stay up to date what has changed that day, just fetch the feeds daily

swallace wrote:

My personal favorite for RSS reading is NewsGator's Outlook extension. The RSS feeds appear right in Outlook 2003 just like any other piece of mail, and are stored in the PST (or is it OST?) on the local machine, so you can get online, download, disconnect and read at your leisure, all within Outlook. Great for traveling. Sweetness.

You liked newsgator? I tried it, but it was a weird thing. It flooded my unread folder, and was very very slow (IMHO), probably because spambase tried to scan everything .

Stay away from saucereader. That thing stores all feeds in .... XML so you'll have to deal with several files of 30-60MB (!) of xml which of course doesn't make it a fast performer

You liked newsgator? I tried it, but it was a weird thing. It flooded my unread folder, and was very very slow (IMHO), probably because spambase tried to scan everything

My solution to the unread issue was to create a new .PST file and direct the RSS entries to that. The Unread folder doesn't recognize it then.

And yes, it's slow, but I blame Outlook for that. I helped to write an Outlook extension once, and it was cantankerous at best.

swallace wrote:

You liked newsgator? I tried it, but it was a weird thing. It flooded my unread folder, and was very very slow (IMHO), probably because spambase tried to scan everything

My solution to the unread issue was to create a new .PST file and direct the RSS entries to that. The Unread folder doesn't recognize it then.

Ah, that sounds logical indeed. We moved away from Exchange to a free mailserver internally last weekend, so we're using .pst files again, and it never crossed my mind before to actually use a pst file for this

And yes, it's slow, but I blame Outlook for that. I helped to write an Outlook extension once, and it was cantankerous at best.

heh yeah, I always wonder why MS gets away with Outlook as their flagship for information management. I mean, the email editor doesn't even have a search replace feature