Many readers use RSS newsreaders to quickly and easily retrieve the articles from this web site. Newsreaders are computer programs that automatically retrieve information from web sites that support the RSS standard and then store the information on a user's computer. Information available in RSS format includes this newsletter's articles as well as news, weather forecasts, stock market information, airline arrival times, UPS shipping information, and much more.
RSS provides a faster and easier method of having the latest information available from as many sites as the user wishes to monitor, including new articles published at this web site.
I recently added something new to this web site: RSS newsfeeds of the comments that others post to the various articles published here. I have been testing it and everything seems to work well. I think now is the time to announce the service.
Each and every article published on this web site now has its own RSS newsfeed, assuming that at least one comment has been posted.
Now you can use your RSS newsreader to automatically retrieve any and all comments posted, now and in the future. The process is automatic, depending upon the capabilities of the newsreader you use. All you need to do is enter the address of the comments RSS newsfeed into your newsreader. By entering the address into your newsreader, you can have all new comments delivered to your computer automatically.
There are two methods of determining the address of the comments newsfeeds:
- You can open the article in a web browser, scroll to the bottom of the article and then click on the link in "You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post."
- If you already know the URL (address) of the original article, simply add "/comments/atom.xml" to the end of that address (without the quote marks.)
You can now read all the comments to articles of interest in less time and with fewer mouseclicks.
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