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Something has been bugging me about .Text the last few months. I finally felt it was time to express my thoughts, or rather a request for v.96. What if we were able to track which blogs we made a comment on, or enable the same comment notification that a blog owner receives? I don't know how many countless times I've had to actually try and remember whose blog I posted the comment to, and then, which entry. It could be easily done (now when I say easy, I mean from an end users viewpoint) to have this, maybe an extra checkbox on the comments to say "Notify me when someone posts a comment". It would work the same way as the ASP.NET forums. How 'bout it?
Update: CommentRSS is currently enabled and available within .Text, however NewsGator currently does not support it.
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Version 0.2 of the NewsGator NNTP Plugin to allow posting to newsgroups has been released. This version includes major UI enhancements and allows for more flexibility. This version also includes Authentication with your NNTP server, or basic Anonymous access. New support for setting up multiple news servers and newsgroups included, with the ability to choose your server and newsgroup upon each post. I also tweaked the HTML cleanup so it doesn't remove any line breaks when posting. Download and update your version now!
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Version 0.1 of the NNTP Posting Plugin for NewsGator has been released. This version includes basic support for replying to newsgroup posts as well as new posts to newsgroups. Download and try this plugin out if you're looking for NNTP Posting support within NewsGator. Post improvments or bugs on this blog.
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A big thanks to Randy Morin with his help on the NNTP. Get Duding!
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I've been looking the last few days on how to use .NET to post messages to NNTP. My intentions are to create a NNTP posting plugin for NewsGator. My research today left me with a good tutorial and code (in C#) on how to communicate with a NNTP server...however, whenever I attempt to post to my NNTP server it errors with a "503 - Command Not Recognized" message. I'm just wondering if anyone has successfully been able to post items to a NNTP server with .NET, as well as, does anyone have any other good resources? I realize they're are a few 3rd party NNTP components out there (IP* Works and Active Up) but since this would be a plugin for NewsGator, I couldn't be able to utilize those. Any help would be appreciated.
Update: Randy (the author of the tutorial) just sent me some updated code. In the Post() code, you shouldn't append the newsgroup, but rather just send a "POST" message.
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After my post yesterday, I decided I should give NewsGator Online Services a try. When I checked out the online demo, I was thuroughly impressed with the different services they offer. I figured that it wasn't going to cost a thing since they had a 14-day free trial, so I signed up right away. Once in, I noticed some sluggish performance, but I wrote that off as "first day jitters" and the popularity & use.
So, I continued only to start setting up my "Premium Content". The short listing of these really didn't impress me, but I signed up for 5 comic strips ... well I actually did the technology first, but that was a bunch of crap. I sure hope to see more premium content in the future.
After the premium content, I just started playing around with the "Web Edition" ... again, a bit slow but it has sped up tremendously in the last 24 hours. I wasn't as impressed with this side of things. I wish that we could have more control over things like:
- Time elapsed to retrieve new posts.
- Deletion of individual posts, not just everything in a folder ... this doesn't make much sense.
The "Custom Feeds" or rather, "search for this phrase in news/blogs" was something really cool, however it looks like it just uses some sites search functionality, so I got back a bunch of random things for the phrase "excentrics world".
I have yet to use the "POP Edition" or "Mobile Edition", but I rarely want to read my blogs at home or somewhere else. Maybe tonight I'll check out the "POP Edition" to see if its any good...the "Mobile Edition" however will have to wait for someone else, unless I want to crack out my iPaq in about a year.
Overall impressions - its a very nice slick interface, and has very good potential. I'm thinking the $5.95 for the Lite version may be a little steep, but if you used all the editions and had multiple computers (which I dont), it may be worth the money. I guess the good thing is, if after 13 days I really don't like it, I can cancel my account and not get charged for anything. What are your impressions?
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Microsoft has decided to sue a 17 year old Canadian boy over the domain name MikeRoweSoft.com (story). The boy's name is actually Mike Rowe, and he registered the domain name to host is personal website. Back in Nov., he received an email from MS telling him to hand over the domain. He later received another email stating they'd pay him $10 for it. He was appalled by this and responded back that he'd sell it for $10,000. Well, that didn't settle well, and just recently he received a nice large book on why he'd be handing over the domain name or be sued.
So, whats the moral? Don't argue with big companies over domain names if it somewhat infringes on their company name or a product of theirs. That company has the right to obtain the domain name without you receiving any profits from it. The story states, however, that MS would not win this time, but only time will tell.
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I finally got around to finishing up bugs & enhancements to my custom controls and released version 1.9 Beta to all of my Beta Testers. I give a big THANK YOU to all of you who test my controls prior to a full release. If you're interested in becoming a beta tester, just drop me a line.
My schedule for a public release of 1.9 is set for February 1, 2004. During these next 2 weeks I'm going to be spending some time on the design time functionality of all my controls, hoping to better the experience for everyone.