RSS feeds

[M Skabialka]

Our users on new PCs have Office 2007, using Outlook 2007 for email. When
they first started Outlook they got a message about subscribing to RSS
feeds. One user said yes and gets hundreds of unwanted emails from MSNBC
which we have created a rule to delete as they come in. What is the point
of the RSS feeds for a corporate user, or for anyone for that matter? It
just seems to add more clutter to the inbox.

 

[Susan Ramlet]

Hi, M,

This probably isn't the best forum for debating the value of RSS feeds for
corporate users, but I am a corporate user and subscribe to eight or ten RSS
feeds related to my job function. It has great value for me.

Rather than creating a rule to delete RSS messages, why not unsubscribe to
the feed you no longer want?

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Susan Ramlet
MVP - Office

Please reply to the newsgroup. I cannot respond to private requests for
help. Besides, then the community doesn't benefit from your question!

 

[Eric A.]

One mans clutter is another mans news.

You can set the rss feeds to pull from any rss source. You dont have to
limit your feeds to msnbc.

 

[Susan Ramlet]

Good point--it may not be clear to the poster that it's not a push of
content; it's a pull from the RSS client.

This site has a pretty nice explanation:

http://webreference.fr/defintions/rss-atom-xml

And here's info about RSS in Outlook 2007:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/FX100340981033.aspx


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Susan Ramlet
MVP - Office

Please reply to the newsgroup. I cannot respond to private requests for
help. Besides, then the community doesn't benefit from your question!