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[quote name='Klaus' timestamp='1283341382' post='2406']

There's no financial benefit for Photozone. These are just the official press releases by the primary manufacturers. No sales offers, no trojans, no fraud. Just the "press releases". So what's the problem ? That's exactly what the headline of the "News" forum is saying after all. :-)



Here's the techical background:

I checked the manufacturer sites for RSS feeds. These feeds are filtered for DSLR/EVIL related content and mashed up to a single newsfeed which covers all manufacturers but Sigma, Tamron, Tokina - these 3 offer no RSS news feeds. The "News Generator" is a feature in the forum engine - it translates RSS feeds to forum messages. It's no external supplier or whatever.



Alternatively I could also post a message here pointing to the press release of a new product but why should I do that if this RSS feed does just that for me.



The value-add is pretty obvious - it saves (my) time.



There's of course the downside that you sometimes get those colorful, nonsense "news" messages where the manufacturers try to promote something. I don't consider this to be disaster though.

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Hi Klaus,



thanks for the explanation. As I said, I can ignore the news generator, but as you have seen, the things the news generator misses still get reported by members. Member reports typically carry more discussion (and pz-live) than the dire press releases. When I first saw this, I thought someone had hijacked an account to get free advertisement ...



As usual I voiced my opinion and you decide as PZ-super-guru.



Thanks again

Joachim
enjoy
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Messages In This Thread
Olympus µFT announcement - by joachim - 08-31-2010, 04:27 PM
Olympus µFT announcement - by popo - 08-31-2010, 06:30 PM
Olympus µFT announcement - by Brightcolours - 08-31-2010, 06:41 PM
Olympus µFT announcement - by popo - 08-31-2010, 06:52 PM
Olympus µFT announcement - by Klaus - 08-31-2010, 07:28 PM
Olympus µFT announcement - by popo - 08-31-2010, 07:36 PM
Olympus µFT announcement - by joachim - 08-31-2010, 09:31 PM
Olympus µFT announcement - by joachim - 08-31-2010, 09:39 PM
Olympus µFT announcement - by Sylvain - 08-31-2010, 11:29 PM
Olympus µFT announcement - by Klaus - 09-01-2010, 06:20 AM
Olympus µFT announcement - by Guest - 09-01-2010, 08:21 AM
Olympus µFT announcement - by Klaus - 09-01-2010, 08:56 AM
Olympus µFT announcement - by Brightcolours - 09-01-2010, 09:12 AM
Olympus µFT announcement - by Brightcolours - 09-01-2010, 09:14 AM
Olympus µFT announcement - by joachim - 09-01-2010, 11:10 AM
Olympus µFT announcement - by joachim - 09-01-2010, 11:17 AM
Olympus µFT announcement - by Klaus - 09-01-2010, 11:43 AM
Olympus µFT announcement - by Guest - 09-01-2010, 12:03 PM
Olympus µFT announcement - by joachim - 09-01-2010, 03:49 PM
Olympus µFT announcement - by joachim - 09-01-2010, 03:58 PM

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