Use Rules to Delete Duplicate RSS Entries

[John Michl]

I'm using Outlook 2007 and experimenting with the RSS reader. I'm
looking for away to manage duplicate entries preferably by using Rules
(instead of VBA or an add-in). Here's an example of the problem:

Users at my company will set up RSS feeds based on tags for articles
posted in an internal wiki/blog system. These entries can have
multiple tags. So someone might have an RSS feed on every article
that is tagged "Microsoft". There might be another RSS feed for
articles tagged with "Apple". If someone subscribes to both feeds and
an articles is tagged with both "Microsoft" and "Apple", the user will
receive two identical RSS entries in Outlook.

Note that each entry will be sitting in a dedicated RSS folder. Since
I've found that reading through the entries folder by folder is not
efficicient, I've set up a rule to move all RSS entries to a single,
client-side folder. Ideally, the second occurence of an item would be
moved to a delete folder or dupe folder so that the main folder does
not contain dupes.

Ideas anyone?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Not possible as the RSS feeds are not aware of each other.
Since it is all coming from the same server, why not have your users build a
custom RSS feed?

 

[John Michl]

Our users are not yet savy with building RSS feeds or understanding
the concepts of tagging so we are starting out with a list of
predefined RSS feeds. Ideally, we'll get there...some day.