Is there any RSS feed exposed on the forums?
Unfortunately RSS feeds of forums message lists only provide a repeat of the OP, perhaps sorted by a new timestamp. Hardly as useful as the NNTP feed threaded or unthreaded. Previously, the WindowsLiveHelp forums were originally
provided the same way but then changed to be more useful before they were decommissioned. I and others have repeatedly suggested both here and in Answers that the same service be provided on all forums. Then it would be up to your feed reader
whether you could get any sense of threading from your cache. For example, the best that WLMail could do then would be to sort messages by title but probably end up with a chronological list of each thread's messages. Another problem with the current
RSS view, including its view of threads, is that even when we do get current messages there is no poster information, only what can be inferred from the message contents, e.g. opening salutation and signature when used. Again, not as good
as an NNTP view, threaded or unthreaded.
Robert Aldwinckle
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