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jpstubbs
Joined: 04 Aug 2003
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Location: New Castle, PA
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 Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2003 7:16 am Post subject: Frequency of visits to this forum |
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Wow, i actually surprised myself when i discovered that it had been a whole month since i last visited the jp1 forum to check the posts. Considering that i used to scan through the emails i received from the yahoo group on an almost daily basis, i can only assume that my tardiness is due to the proceedure i have to go through to actively open the web page and log in to check new posts instead of just scanning through my email client for new messages.
i remember reading somewhere that phpBB are developing an email digest funtion at some point in the future and i can only say the sooner the better or it may be another month before I remember to login and check for new posts again.
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Lenroc
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| Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2003 11:36 am Post subject: |
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I don't find it too hard to save my login in a cookie (perhaps not an option for all...), then visit phpBB's built in "View Posts Since Your Last Visit" page, at http://www.hifi-remote.com/forums/search.php?search_id=newposts
However, I realize this is still an active act rather than a passive one...
OTOH, I do receive emails about replies to any topic that I have participated in... |
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aberguerand
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Location: Lausanne, VD, Switzerland
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| Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2003 12:02 pm Post subject: |
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I have developed a chain of programs that periodically scans the forum for new messages, packages the messages titles and URLs in a RSS feed and sends it to my RSS reader.
So I get the JP1 forum as well as other news sites I am interested in, like Slashdot, pushed to my PC under a single user interface.
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Ellen
Joined: 03 Aug 2003
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Location: East of the Rock, West of the Hard Place
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| Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2003 8:52 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Wow, i actually surprised myself when i discovered that it had been a whole month since i last visited the jp1 forum to check the posts. Considering that i used to scan through the emails i received from the yahoo group on an almost daily basis, i can only assume that my tardiness is due to the proceedure i have to go through to actively open the web page and log in to check new posts instead of just scanning through my email client for new messages. |
This was one of several reasons that I was so very disappointed when the jp1 group moved to one of these web only forums 
| Quote: | | I have developed a chain of programs that periodically scans the forum for new messages, packages the messages titles and URLs in a RSS feed and sends it to my RSS reader. |
Please forgive my ignorance, but what's a RSS reader? |
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aberguerand
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| Quote: | | I have developed a chain of programs that periodically scans the forum for new messages, packages the messages titles and URLs in a RSS feed and sends it to my RSS reader. |
Please forgive my ignorance, but what's a RSS reader? |
Extracted from this site :
| Quote: | RSS is a format for syndicating news and the content of news-like sites, including major news sites like Wired, news-oriented community sites like Slashdot, and personal weblogs. But it's not just for news. Pretty much anything that can be broken down into discrete items can be syndicated via RSS: the "recent changes" page of a wiki, a changelog of CVS checkins, even the revision history of a book. Once information about each item is in RSS format, an RSS-aware program can check the feed for changes and react to the changes in an appropriate way.
RSS-aware programs called news aggregators are popular in the weblogging community. Many weblogs make content available in RSS. A news aggregator can help you keep up with all your favorite weblogs by checking their RSS feeds and displaying new items from each of them.
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