Today I was adding another list of RSS Feeds for the rssbot.org web crawler to scour.

As luck would have it, none of the Microsoft MSDN RSS Feeds could be added, due to over-extension of the RSS 2.0 standard.

I'm not sure if the actual problem is the fact that they have extended it (which shouldn't be the case), or if it's because they have an XSL stylesheet attached to the RSS Feed.

I'm thinking it's the XSL issue, since other sites that over-extend their RSS Feeds seem to parse ok.

Anyhow, I guess that means that no Microsoft/MSDN feeds will be able to be archived to the rssbot.org database, which doesn't matter to me, but may matter to some users in the audience. =(

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rssbot.org is an open source web service that is intended to collect data from remote RSS feeds, on an hourly basis, thus providing a comprehensive search-able database of links, as well as the latest content from multiple user-specified RSS feeds.

The rssbot.org website also allows users to join the rssbot community, and add their favorite RSS feeds to the database, as well as subscribe to existing RSS feeds.

There is also an email subscription engine that allows users to subscribe to RSS feeds, and receive an hourly/daily/weekly digest of the latest content from their subscribed feeds, directly to their email inbox or cell phone.

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