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(...) These don't work for me when I load them into a RSS client. I get a list of entries, but I just get the homepage no matter what entry I click on. --Bill (20 years ago, 25-Jun-04, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(...) Why not just say "we, Yahoo, want everyone to use our client so we can send them ads and popups and keep users from thinking about using other IM services" instead of giving some gafla about spim. They can say whatever they want, if it's true, (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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This is a nuisance. I like using Trillian for IM. (URL) Mike Walsh - mike_walsh at mindspring.com (URL) - North Carolina LEGO Train Club (URL) - Carolina Train Builders (URL) - CTB/Brick Depot (20 years ago, 24-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: LUGNET news RSS feed
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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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"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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(...) 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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(...) Forgot to update that when I installed. Fixed now. Thanks for the heads up! Jake --- Jake McKee Webmaster - BIP (URL) (20 years ago, 24-Jun-04, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) LOL! Love the creator! ROSCO (20 years ago, 24-Jun-04, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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All, Inspired by (URL) Dan's post> from earlier today about the new LUGNET RSS feed, I created a Building Instructions Portal Latest Updates feed. (URL) And while I'm on the subject of updates, I've recently implemented (URL) BlogFusion> on the (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jun-04, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.general, FTX)
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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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(...) 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 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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(...) 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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(...) 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 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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(...) 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'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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| | Re: Outlook Rules
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(...) Yes, I have to admit - after a few years of bouncing about I eventually did settle on mutt. Been using it for 5 years now. Can't imagine any other mailer that will allow me to handle ~10,000 emails a day (even if 9,000 of them are spam :). (20 years ago, 15-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Okay, this being .geek, I have to point out two things: 1. Outlook does not rule. Outlook sucks. 2. This is really easy in mutt, and in fact I've got several such 'hooks'. :) (20 years ago, 15-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I'm on [quite a] few mailing lists. Some are registered through different POP accounts. I use multiple POP accounts in Outlook. I often neglect to select the appropriate account for the list, which results in my messages being rejected. This either (...) (20 years ago, 12-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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