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More Flexible News Scanning Needed (#382)
Posted: 8/8/2002; 8:54 PM by Terry Frazier
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This really hits the mark -- I've been traveling for two weeks with very limited connectivity. I come home and it's clear lots of good things have been going on in my absence, but the Aggregator has automatically both generated a huge backlog and deleted things that may have been useful.

Radio Wishlist - Tune news aggregation intervals up and down..

Bryce Yehl tossed a coin in the fountain:

Radio Wish: Finer configuration of aggregation frequency.

One thing that sucks about falling behind in Radio's news aggregator: new items will continue to flow in while you're still dealing with the old ones. The "sticky" checkboxes in myRadio help to cope with this problem, but that only goes so far (especially when you have a serious backlog).

I'd like to configure Radio so that it automatically runs the news scan less frequently, perhaps once per day. Coupled with that, I want buttons in the browser to scan immediately and temporarily disable automatic scans.

Why make news collection a quiet background activity? Resources, for one: you don't want syndication confused with denial of service.

klogging calls for more frequent updating of select partner/colleague feeds. Sometimes polling every three minutes is the right thing to do.

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