Gordon takes a look at a spam filtering plug-in, and goes on to talk about organizing feeds in NewsGator:I’ve been thinking about trying to come up with a way to generalize the filtering, so that I could categorize good emails into separate folders, or categorize my incoming RSS feeds from NewsGator in interesting ways, rather [...]
Archive for: February, 2003
GUIDs and RSS
There’s an interesting issue with using <guid> elements in RSS feeds. Presumably, the <guid> element in RSS is intended to uniquely identify a post, so that aggregators can tell whether or not they have already seen a post. The technorati feeds, for example, use this to their advantage. If you look at one of their [...]
Comments link for weblog posts
Due to a large number of requests, I have added a comments link to posts in NewsGator where the RSS 2.0 <comments> element is present. This will be in the next public build, scheduled for next week sometime.Maybe Dave will add NewsGator to the RSS 2.0 aggregators list now… :-)
Colossal Screw-up
Sorry folks…I made a little mistake, and evidently didn’t test a couple of bug fixes against each other. With certain feeds, the old 0.8.4 (actually 0.8.4.1) would fail to retrieve, and the status window would just sit there and stare at you.I built a new version, and the download links have been updated. If you [...]
NewsGator 0.8.4
Well, there wasn’t going to be another release before 0.9, but there were enough changes piling up that I wanted to get them out for people to use. So, you can now download v0.8.4 from the NewsGator site.Users who are using the public 0.7 or 0.8 builds can just install 0.8.4 over them. If you [...]