How to share network media is common question on XP and even Vista despite improvements in the latter. If you do a basic search with Google or Live you’ll actually get mixed information with many people (including some Microsoft sources) saying that sharing of networked content is not possible. However let it be known that it is possible [...]
To Chris Pirillo
Posted By Corey on March 23rd, 2005
[Was going to press send in Outlook but decided that's too private 
and I'm bored.]
So I normally wouldn’t complain about something like this… But I actually enjoy reading your blog and such, but I’m slightly annoyed now. Looking back it looks as if at some point between the 11th and 15th you turned off the full text feeds and opted for description only feeds. While this really annoys me on larger sites (to the point where I just remove the feed) I find it a wee bit more annoying on yours simply because when I click to get the entire thing, my only option is to read it on your site. And forgive me for saying so but the combination of your handwriting font and the ruled yellow paper make it near impossible for my still young eyes to read, especially when the blue lines run through the type. It’s honestly too much work to copy and paste what you write into notepad to easily read, so I read less. Also note that I deleted every post of yours in Outlook going back to the beginning of the year simply because I’m too lazy to go through and delete the duplicate entries. I figure NewsGator will re-download the new stuff. But gah, so bloody annoying.
I can totally understand turning off full text to get the clicks and get the adviews and I’m sure you don’t want to starting putting ADV:’s in your feeds… But you’ve got to draw the line somewhere. Also, having a different feed for people that have a login also doesn’t seem like a fair option either. What in the world is going on dude? I’m sure you have enough bandwidth to handle the traffic, or I at least hope you do. Implement the /. bitch slapping if you have to. But for the love of god and all that is holy turn your full text feeds back on.
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March 26th, 2005 at 11:56 pm
NewsGator? Fetchlinks.
March 31st, 2005 at 5:30 am
IntraVnews downloads the entire page. Works great, even on sites like slashdot.
March 31st, 2005 at 6:49 am
Problem with FetchLinks and solutions like it is that it loads the entire page rather than just the text. So what’s the point of subscribing to the feeds then? One could just go to the site regularly then.