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Post by vk7hch » 28 June 05 10:10 am

Just wondering if the RSS feed survived the overseas move, since then it has been silent. Is there a new url to use? <br> I miss it! :cry:

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Post by ideology » 28 June 05 12:11 pm

oops we broke it, we'll take a look
sorry for the inconvenience

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Post by ideology » 28 June 05 10:38 pm

we have moved the rss feed onto the new server for your viewing pleasure
it's now at: http://forum.geocaching.com.au/rss/forum.rss

if you can think of a good place to put a link to the RSS feed, let us know and we'll put one in

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Post by Damo. » 29 June 05 6:52 pm

What's the RRS feed good for? Never used one before. I added it to my email program and it displays a list of recent posts. Click on them and it shows the forum log in page.

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Post by vk7hch » 29 June 05 7:34 pm

That is exactly what it is meant to do, instead of going to the forum page, and continuously pressing refresh to get the latest posts, an RSS ticker will refresh the list at a predetermined time interval (to avoid server loading, no more frequently than 60 mins!), and notify you via some visual method that new posts are available for viewing. This way you only click on and view the posts that interest you.

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Post by aloysius » 29 June 05 7:37 pm

what about the feed from the main site...used to be at **old link removed by i! to stop people trying to access it and getting confused**

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Post by ideology » 29 June 05 7:54 pm

oops, fixed
for some reason the symbolic links didn't survive the transition to the new sydney server

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Post by vk7hch » 29 June 05 8:00 pm

mmmmmmmm, what is this?<br><br>
XML Parsing Error: undefined entity

Line Number 63, Column 11:<title_>¡Se&or Diablo's Cache Fiesta! (Margate)</title_>
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Post by aloysius » 29 June 05 8:29 pm

yeh same for me...btw thanks for all your work on the site Ideoguys :)

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Post by ideology » 29 June 05 8:42 pm

yes, someone has used an accented character in the cache name that we haven't managed to filter out yet. we thought we had a routine to filter them out but it looks like we missed it
sorry we don't have time to fix this at the moment so this one will have to wait until we get back in a couple of weeks time
it will probably disappear in a couple of days or you can use the specific state rss feed in the interim

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Post by vk7hch » 29 June 05 8:47 pm

Thanks fellas, have a good break and thanks for all your work.

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Post by aloysius » 29 June 05 8:54 pm

There is state specific RSS feeds? where, pray tell, would one find these?

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Post by vk7hch » 29 June 05 10:39 pm

**old links removed by i! to stop people trying to access it and getting confused**

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Post by Map Monkey » 29 June 05 10:48 pm

....and don't forget **old link removed by i! to stop people trying to access it and getting confused**:lol:

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Post by Mind Socket » 30 June 05 10:27 am

Does someone wanna put some doco on this stuff up on the wiki?

http://wiki.geocaching.com.au/index.php ... ction=edit

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