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Old 16-06-2009, 14:03
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Under "Photographic Feeds" at the bottom of the main forum list, you'll see some new forums with content in there. The first one I've put there is newsgroup (Usenet) alt.photography.

I'm going to try these for a little while and automatically bring in various newsgroup feeds covering many different topics. If you reply to posts in these forums, your reply will be posted back to the newsgroup.

Things to be aware of:
  • We are NOT able to control the content of these groups so we will only be adding the most reputable ones.
  • The people you see that have made comments are NOT members of PhotoTopix but they will know your reply came from this site.
  • The new newsgroup forums are polled on the hour and every half past the hour so your replies will not show in the groups until each half hour poll is complete.
I'm hoping that this will bring a lot more potential new members into us but will also give you the opportunity to see more discussions which you may find useful and learn from and also be able to help out with too.

Please remember by participating in these newsgroups you must abide by their own rules, we are providing nothing more than a portal into the Usenet world so have fun and hope you will find this new addition useful.
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Old 16-06-2009, 14:06
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Zoë just noticed this stuff!
Had us confused for a while...
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Ah now it is all clear!
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Is there a way we can use them to help the site mate?
They are coming in at an alarming rate! I just clicked one, read the post and within less than a minute it had dropped off page 1.

Some stuff looks like pretty old topics aswell...
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Old 16-06-2009, 14:28
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They are currently populating and may take a while.... just join in any discussions you want too, no need to advertise to help the site... each post will have a footer to tell the newsgroups your response originated from here.

With all this extra content though, more people will find us via the search engines as we will have much more content on the site for people to easily find
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Old 16-06-2009, 16:05
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After looking at the chosen newsgroups, especially the recent posts in them there is a great deal of spam compared to the earlier group posts. This is not a viable solution so has been disabled for the moment until I can investigate it further and in more detail.
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