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| I've expanded the Peeron Sidebars idea to include an RSS feed of new posts. Not sure if it's going to be as useful as the LUGNET sidebar, but it was easy to code. The new feed can be found here: (URL) the old sidebars can still be found here: (URL) (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jun-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.off-topic.geek) !
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| (...) a broken browser that doesn't know how to show unformatted XML, you can try this link: (URL) (20 years ago, 23-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) I for one am totally hooked on RSS as a way to keep up with site I visit frequently. In one RSS news reader session of 10 minutes, I "visit" the 40+ blogs I frequent daily. And with notifications when new stuff is posted, it's SO much easier (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Like IE 6.0, for example? What percentage of users use it? Pretty high, isn't it? I find it frustrating that developers either have to allow for MS broken-ness, or disenfranchise a bunch of users, most of whom want nothing to do with pro/anti (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) I dunno - about 20% from my logs. How many of those users actually use IE6 to read RSS? Probably very close to 0%. As it makes really no sense to try to consume an RSS feed in a web browser. (Though mozilla does have some extensions that allow (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) I think there's a LOT of value add in RSS feeds, in general, but not this one, not at this time, it's too raw. I would want to see some stuff filtered out, somewhere. I'm keen to see if someone can provide a mechanimsm for configurable (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Such customized feeds don't work well as RSS. I can certainly imagine some pre-selected filters, and a few seperate feeds - but having a feed generated just for a specific user won't work well. For the Peeron Sidebar though, it would. And it's (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) I think the easiest way to solve this problem, at least immediately, is to be able to create a feed per newsgroup or collection of newsgroups. For instance, you could subscribe to .trains, .trains.org, or simply an uber.trains feed. As far as (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) A feed that reformats FTX posts might be nice too. ROSCO (20 years ago, 24-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| "Dan Boger" <dan@peeron.com> wrote in message news:20040623184606....ron.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) [ ... snipped ... ] Maybe a few specific feeds can be defined and made available. For the ILTCO web site I am achieving roughly the same (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) It's a funky character issue. When you take the funky characters that are used in Web sites (smart quotes, for instance) dump them as is into an RSS feed, the browser, and often many readers kick back on it. It doesn't look like, at this (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) If you use an RSS reader to follow blogs, it fits nicely in that mold. At first I agreed with you - there's no structure... but it's so painless to view it in an RSS reader, that the lack of structure isn't really a problem. You just skip the (...) (20 years ago, 26-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) separate author tags, is there a reason for that? ROSCO (20 years ago, 26-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Right - but that would end up with several thousand feeds, which almost no one actually reads. Not sure what the solution is - perhaps RSS (or Atom) support a "category" concept, and then allow on the client side to filter by category? Then we (...) (20 years ago, 27-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) To do that properly though, I'd have to actually keep a history of every lugnet post - otherwise, if there weren't any train posts in the last 20, the train specific RSS feed would be empty. Not terrible, but not exactly desireable. Not saying (...) (20 years ago, 27-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Nope, just me being braindead. Fixed now (though getting the email address proved more of a challenge than I expected). (20 years ago, 27-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) For now, you could put the newsgroup in the category. (...) I woulda been happy with just the name, but I guess a programmer aint gonna ignore a challenge ;) (...) Yippee!! Thanks Dan. (20 years ago, 27-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Is there a 'category' in RSS? (...) Well, that, and the fact that the author tag is _required_ to have a valid email address in it. :) Dan (20 years ago, 27-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Thanks - I've been using this to stay on top of LUGNET and it works great. I use NetNewsWire Lite on MAC OS X, if you care. Couple things I'd like to see though: * Put back the "by Author Name" in the title - the author isn't displayed (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Hmmm - never used netnewswire - but can't you have it display the author tag? I've seen other readers do that, bloglines.com for instance. (...) Looking at yesterday's stats[1] (which misleadingly, have today's date), that's about 180 posts. (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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