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I don't know if this has been suggested before, and I can't do a search since "RSS" is less than 4 characters, but are there any plans to add RSS capability to Plus!?

If so, it would be really cool if the RSS feature was located as a MSN Tab.

What you think?

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So has the creator of Plus! considered this?
I'm gonna continue to use Trillian until Plus! supports this.  I think it's a crucial feature to support these days.

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Originally posted by YourMom
So has the creator of Plus! considered this?
I'm gonna continue to use Trillian until Plus! supports this.  I think it's a crucial feature to support these days.

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My personal opinon is... it's a crucial feature for news agregators, not for plug-ins for instant messengers . Maybe for e-mail applications, but not for instant messengers...

Personally, I use NewsGator for Outlook 2003. Reccommended .

There are many good free news agregators, which are already much better than what Trillian's plugin is or what Msgplus' feature could be.

Again, my opinion.

Why not creating your own tab... you can put every RSS feed you like in that...

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
Why not creating your own tab... you can put every RSS feed you like in that...

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Cool idea!! 

What RSS software do you recommend and where can ya get news feeds from?

I dunno, I don't use RSS-feeds ()... But you can simple write some PHP which catches some headlines from other sites...

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
I dunno, I don't use RSS-feeds ()... But you can simple write some PHP which catches some headlines from other sites...

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It's not as simple as you think, eh

You get news feeds from a lot of sites themselves (including Neowin, Cnet, Slashdot, many newspapers around the world, etc.) and there are many directories with rss feeds which I am too lazy to look for.

As for the RSS readers, I've only used (and love) NewsGator 2 (nothing to do with Gator spyware, its Gator from Agregator), but I've heard Feeddemon is very good too (not free either).

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Originally posted by Guido
It's not as simple as you think, eh

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Yes it is ... write a php that catches some other HTML-page, strip of the HTML and you get your headline... No, I'm not going to do it myself
But, I know, this isn't realy a RSS-feed, but you can catch many headlines like this from other (thru) RSS-feeded sites...

* WDZ wonders if there's a news-reader program that generates a web page though, or that you can include in a web page.

I'd just code my own...