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How should aggregators work?

May 14th, 2003 by gregr

(warning: blatant
NewsGator plug ahead!) Ok, so I’m a little
bit behind. :-) In a href="http://scriptingnews.userland.com/2003/04/23#When:7:44:43PM">post back in April, Dave
Winer says:



RSS readers that work like href="http://www.techcorps.org/webteacher/winexp/newsgroups/open-screen2S.gif">Usenet
readers are a waste of time, imho. Aggregators should not
organize news by where items came from, just href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0001015/images/2002/06/11/newsaggregator1.gif">present
the news in reverse chronologic order.


He got some href="http://paolo.evectors.it/2003/04/24.html#a1587">agreement, and some href="http://www.xl8.net/Blog/posts.aspx/544e804e-0de4-4e13-a71f-8bcdf2266d3f">disagreement.
My vote? Why not use an href="http://www.newsgator.com">aggregator that will do
both?

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2 responses about “How should aggregators work?”

  1. Dave Hyndman said:
    May 15th, 2003 at 5:47 am

    Check out my take at http://radio.weblogs.com/0100172/2003/05/15.html#a53

    There’s also a note about a problem I had with NewsGator that you might want to check out.

  2. Greg Reinacker said:
    May 15th, 2003 at 8:08 am

    Dave, keep in mind that if you turn on auto-preview in Outlook, you will see at least the first few lines of each message, and you could do a big reverse-chronological list. More valuable, IMHO, than a big list of the entire items, which could get huge very quickly if many of the posts are very long.

    As for the problem you’re seeing, please send a note to support@newsgator.com and we’ll try to figure out what’s going on.

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