Whoo .. cool hack/add on

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I've been having a play on my dev board .. a few things jump out at me ..
(I'm using a BBC rss news feed btw)
1/ I'm getting \ in front of ' .. any way to stop that?
2/ Any reason for the bot to subscribe to the thread? as it seems to do it .. if not needed how would you stop that?
3/ I've run the rss cron job 3 times in the last few mins to test it .. and it doesn't seem to know that it's already posted a story and therefore reposts it. Is the subscription to the thread meant to stop that? Is there any way to get the bot to know it has already posted about a subject?
I'll continue playing and post if anything else seems amiss ..
Good job though