Posting Date: February 22, 2003

NewsMonster -- "NewsMonster offers a superior web experience and outstanding integration with existing websites and weblogs that support RSS. Even sites that don't support RSS can work with NewsMonster. That's not all! NewsMonster incorporates an advanced reputation system to prevent spam and discover and inform you of important news." (Comments: AmphetaDesk and the Adventures of Morbus Iff)

Reader Comments...

NM is a little on the controversial side... see

http://diveintomark.org/archives/2003/02/20/robotstxt_support_for_uberaggregators.html

and followup at

http://diveintomark.org/archives/2003/02/21/newsmonster_day_2.html

"NewsMonster doesn’t care if you don’t provide full content in your feed. In fact, it doesn’t care if you do; it will still download the original HTML pages and images anyway. And, more disturbingly, it doesn’t respect robots.txt like other well-behaved bulk-downloaders."

Posted by: Peter J. on February 23, 2003 03:03 PM

I've tried NM in both Mozilla and Netscape at home and at work and can't get the thing to run for the life of me - I always get some fatal error. My overall experiences with news readers have been pretty poor. Anyone else had similar experiences?

Posted by: Lyle - Usability Guru on February 24, 2003 12:24 PM

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