Hi Alan,

On 6/6/10 4:04 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> Hi Werner:
> 
> Our news feed on plplot.sf.net continues to have troubles.
> 
>[...]
> 
> I have invested a number of hours today in tracking down all the above
> information, but I don't see any nice way out of the problem, and I am
> afraid if any of us attempts to take it further, it will become a serious
> time sink.  Thus, I strongly favour removal of this lame information about
> individual news items from our site.  After all, we still do have a link to
> https://sourceforge.net/news/?group_id=2915 on our website which still works
> to display the latest news with a further link to older news.
> 
> Do you agree with this removal of the individual news items or do you have
> some other alternative to suggest to work around the problem?

The other possibility would be to use an php RSS reader to read the
plplot RSS and display the relevant information on our webpage. Since
this needs some time, which I can't invest in the moment, your
suggestion is perfect (and you did it already).

Regards,
Werner

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