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    Reading Usenet in your RSS Reader

    Every once in a while I feel the need to check for something in the Microsoft Usenet groups.  Every time I'm rooting around in there I'm struck by how much great information goes through there that I never see.  I also see tons of questions I know the answers to and could provide help.  My problem is that I don't reliably check these groups so most of this passes me by.  I was stumbling around the net one day and I found that Google Groups has that little orange XML icon at the bottom of their group feeds.  This means you can use your favorite RSS reader to keep up with news groups all in the same window.  This isn't a problem on my laptop where I use JetBrain's Omea (capable of retrieving NNTP and RSS) but at work I use a lite browser-based reader.  This little revelation enables me to keep up at work.
    Posted: 03-21-2006 12:16 PM by Matt Ranlett | with 1 comment(s)
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    Jim Wooley said:

    Omea Reader (the free version) has a fully functional newsgroup reader. Hook it to the msnews.microsoft.com groups and you are good to go. That's how I am monitoring some of the VB groups now. There is a wealth of information there and in the MSDN Forums which also has a RSS feed option.

    Beware, if you have trouble keeping up with blogs, trying to keep up with the forms and newsgroups is 10x as hard. At least with Omea, you can set up a search for your name and try to keep up with people who respond to your posts that way.
    # March 21, 2006 2:15 PM