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Postby meicw on Sun Jan 23, 2005 1:03 pm

Nnnnsic, I am having probs with setting up the RSS feed. When I put the URL in the manage subsription box it just hangs when it is trying to confirm the feed. It doesnt time out. I played 3 games of patience while I was waiting. BTW the URL is http://forum.d70users.com, isn't it?

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Postby Kristine on Sun Jan 23, 2005 1:49 pm

Hi Meicw

I am using Thunderbird with no problems. The feed link you need to use is: http://forum.d70users.com/indexrss.php

Let me know if you need further assistance.


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Postby meicw on Sun Jan 23, 2005 2:32 pm

Thanks Kristine. Adding '/indexrss.php' did the trick.
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Postby genji on Mon Jan 24, 2005 9:27 am

kristine

I'm using firefox and thunderbird too, it sounds silly but how do I use RSS feed?

Some sites i visit, ie whirlpool.net.au have an icon (@ bottom right) that i pressed to initate the RSS feed.

d70users doesnt have the icon...so I'm lost..help.

can you tell me how to maually start the RSS feed

thanks

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Postby gstark on Mon Jan 24, 2005 9:41 am

Genji,

genji wrote:d70users doesnt have the icon...so I'm lost..help.


It certainly does. On the front page, in the section that gives you your personal user information. It's the "XML" one.

Right click on the icon, select "save link location" or whatever seems most similar to that.

In T'bird, go and create a new account - make it an rss feed type of account. Complete the rest of the bs, and save it. Then go back in to properties and add the link location that you've saved.

Being a complete T'bird newbie, it took me less than 5 minutes to install it, have it set up to my email in, plus the rss from D70. IOW, it's easy .
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Postby Nnnnsic on Mon Jan 24, 2005 9:57 am

Genji,

There are two RSS feed icons that I've seen so far.

Some of them have a little box that says "RSS" (Image) and some have that little feed icon they stick in your actual browser (Image), but most sites I've seen use the little box with XML in it like this one: Image
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Postby genji on Mon Jan 24, 2005 10:06 am

thanks gstark
I didnt notice the rss feed option when setting up my email account. Now I can pretend to be doing work, while reading this forum! :)

I've used this type of RSS feed before, BuT not in this context ;)

thanks Nnnnsic, yeah i was refering to the second type in my post.

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Postby Rusty W. Griswald on Mon Jan 24, 2005 10:51 am

I use Firefox and an extension called Sage. Works fine.

http://sage.mozdev.org/
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Postby genji on Mon Jan 24, 2005 11:28 am

Rusty W. Griswald wrote:I use Firefox and an extension called Sage. Works fine.

http://sage.mozdev.org/


thanks for the link, Rusty. works fantastic!
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