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Re: LUGNET news RSS feed
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Wed, 23 Jun 2004 21:53:31 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Dan Boger wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 04:58:32PM +0000, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> > I would want to see some stuff filtered out, somewhere. I'm keen to
> > see if someone can provide a mechanimsm for configurable filters, so,
> > for example, I wouldn't see any posts from locgroups I wasn't
> > interested in, or didn't know the language.
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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.
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 not being able to view the feed in MSIE, one issue is for user of
Pluck (like me) from www.pluck.com, which is an IE feed reader plugin.
SharpReader and FeedDemon and NewsCrawler all weren't pulling the feed this
morning, but seem to be doing fine with it now. As we've talked about offline, I
think it's simply a funky characters not being filtered out issue.
Running it through feedvalidator.org shows that the funky single quote is
causing grief at the moment, as well as the funny long "-" character. I saved
locally, fixed those two characters (both as part of this original posting:
http://news.lugnet.com/off-topic/debate/?n=24503) and opened it locally in IE
without any problems at all.
I think this is terrific, and as someone who tends to only keep up with news and
blogs and more with RSS, I'm all over getting this functionality up and running!
Jake
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Jake McKee
Webmaster - BIP
http://www.bricksonthebrain.com
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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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