Hi!

I subscribed to dnn news rss (http://www.dotnetnuke.com/About/NewsRoom/tabid/703/moduleid/1344/RSS.aspx) which behaves somewhat in a strange way.

1) I get many notifications that there are new items (about 20 per hour). The changed items are quite old. For instance currently I have the following news items marked as new/updated:

Announcements - Toronto Code Camp (2007/03/30)

Announcements - WHIR: CrystalTech Ups Sponsorship (2007/04/05)

and many others.

2) Another problem I have is that when I click on a new item on my rss feader I get the announcements home page instead of that item. And if an  item is old enough not to be in the home page, I cannot see it.

Alright, after reviewing the code and the feed link in my cheepo IE7 newsreader,  I think the issue really lies in how DNN creates the feed from the internal search items and combines them, and puts them in memory for rss consumption.  The number of old items showing up as 'new', probably get tagged as new because the updated list of items in that stored cache will get updated depending on site settings.  If an item, like an old announcement is not setup to expire at a certain date, then it's going to get selected again, and again, which makes it a new item in the feed when the cache is refreshed.

That's my first look and impression.  May be totally wrong, but that's what I see.  Since, I don't have access to the database which stores the actual announcements, I can't tell you if the announcements are ever set to expire.  My feeling is that you would not see them show up, unless they are not marked as expired. 

The last word I heard was that this whole mechanism was being re-thought, but it may just be due to the way the Announcement item is being setup.  Hard to say for sure.  Again, don't know exactly if it's a 'bug' in the code or not.  Hopefully, someone attached to the Core Team can take a deeper look. (Hint! Hint!)

Cheers!