Outlook RSS and why I deleted TechNet Radio
I have been using the new RSS feed feature in Outlook 2007 for some time now and absolutely love it – I’m in Outlook ALL day, it’s the centre of my communication universe and having it collate my RSS feeds just makes sense.
I’m a regular listener to a few podcasts :
and until today TechNet Radio…
I have Outlook set to download enclosures automatically (so for the podcast shows I get the MP3 directly into my mailbox. Whilst this bloats my mailbox (as you’ll see later) I work for an Email Archiving company (C2C) and my RSS feeds folder has an ‘older than 21 days and is read’ policy applied to it. We are also about to extend support for the RSS items making it even easier to identify them in a policy.
Anyway, today I got very annoyed with TechNet Radio. On looking at what I thought was new items in that feed I found that it was downloading all the feed items again (the same one’s I already have). My status bar tells me that it’s got 498MB to update and it’s going to take 8 hours.
On looking further I find that I already have 4 copies of most of this stuff…
So I go ahead and delete all the duplicates then examine the size of my ‘Deleted Items’ folder.
Almost 1.5GB
Okay, had enough ditch it all and delete the feed.
I mean, come on guys, what is going on – no one else gives me this hassle, the Pwop Productions guys (Hanselminutes and DotNetRocks) are fine, as is The MicroISV Show – never any errors or duplicates – and there MP3 have intelligent tags, like the name of the show and/or guest names instead of something like :
TechNet Radio – 21 December 2006
and their’s is tagged with a Genre of Podcast not just left blank…
End of rant, end of my subscription to TechNet Radio.